On October 4th, in a security notice Canonical published details about some Python 2.7 vulnerabilities affecting its Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 11.04, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, several security issues were fixed in Python 2.6. Multiple vulnerabilities have been unidentified and repaired.
On October 17th, in a security notice Canonical published details about Python 2.5 vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) operating system.
According to Canonical, several security issues were fixed in Python 2.5.
On October 24, in a security notice Canonical published details about Python 3.1 vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, several security issues were fixed in Python 3.1.
On November 20, Canonical published details about Python Keyring vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 11.10 operating systems. According to Canonical, several security issues were fixed in Python Keyring. It was discovered that Python Keyring's CryptedFileKeyring file format used weak cryptography and that it created keyring files with insecure permissions.
On October 23, in a security notice Canonical published details about Python 3.2 vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 11.04 operating systems.
According to Canonical, several security issues were fixed in Python 3.2.
On October 25, in a security notice Canonical published details about and WebKit vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS operating system.
According to Canonical, multiple security vulnerabilities were fixed in WebKit.
On November 29, Canonical published details about Lynx vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.10 and Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, two security issues were fixed in Lynx. First of all, a heap-based buffer overflow was discovered in Lynx.
Canonical published details about ClamAV vulnerabilities, in a security notice, for its Ubuntu 12.10, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems. According to Canonical, several security issues were fixed in ClamAV.Felix Groebert, Mateusz Jurczyk and Gynvael Coldwind discovered multiple security issues with ClamAV.
On October 10th, in a security notice Canonical published details about devscripts vulnerabilities for its Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 11.10, Ubuntu 11.04, and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS operating systems.
According to Canonical, several security issues were fixed in Mozilla Firefox, such as several memory corruption flaws, improper handling of HTML5 specifications, improper security checks on tests methods f