Canonical published details about LibTIFF vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.According to Canonical, LibTIFF could be made to crash or run programs, as the user’s login, if it opened a specially crafted file.It was discovered discovered that LibTIFF incorrectly handled certain malformed images when using the tiff2pdf t
On December 6, Canonical published in a security notice details about a libxml2 vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal), Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin), Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot), Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx), and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) operating systems.
On December 10, Canonical published in a security notice details about a GIMP vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.10 Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.According to Canonical, GIMP could have been made to crash or run programs as the users login, if it opened a specially crafted file.It was discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled malformed XWD files.
On December 17, Canonical published in a security notice details about a bogofilter vulnerability for its Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) operating systems.
According to Canonical, bogofilter could have been made to crash or run programs, if it processed a specially crafted email.
It was discovered that bogofilter incorrectly handled certain invalid base64 code.
In a security notice, Canonical has published details about a Mesa vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system.
According to Canonical, Mesa could have been made to crash or run programs, if it processed specially crafted data.
It was discovered that Mesa incorrectly handled certain arrays.
On December 6, Canonical published in a security notice details about a Bind vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating systems.
According to Canonical, Bind could have been made to crash if it received specially-crafted network traffic.
It was discovered that Bind incorrectly handled certain crafted queries when DNS64 was enabled.
Canonical has published in a security notice details about an Emacs vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 11.10 operating systems.According to Canonical, Emacs could be made to run programs, as your login, if it opened a specially crafted file.Hiroshi Oota and Paul Ling discovered that the Emacs package incorrectly handled search paths and it incorrectly handled certain eval
On November 7, in a security notice, Canonical published details about an Icedtea-Web vulnerability for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 11.04, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, the Icedtea-Web plugin could have been made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted web page.
It was discovered that if a user was tri
Canonical published details about ClamAV vulnerabilities, in a security notice, for its Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, ClamAV could be made to crash or run programs if it opened a specially crafted file.
For example, it was discovered that ClamAV would incorrectly parse a UPX-packed executable, leading t