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It was discovered that pyasn1 did not properly bound the size of long-form tag identifiers when parsing BER, CER, or DER encoded data. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications decoding untrusted ASN.1 data to consume excessive CPU resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-59884) It was discovered that pyasn1 processed OBJECT IDENTIFIER and RELATIVE-OID values in quadratic time relative to the number of arcs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications decoding untrusted ASN.1 data to consume excessive CPU resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-59885) It was discovered that pyasn1 incorrectly handled conversion of decoded REAL values to Python float types. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications decoding untrusted ASN.1 data to consume excessive CPU and memory resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-59886)

It was discovered that Libgcrypt had a timing-based side-channel flaw in its RSA implementation. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information.

USN-8688-1 fixed a vulnerability in PAM. This update provides the corresponding fix for PAM on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Original advisory details: Juthawong Naisanguansee discovered that PAM incorrectly cleared failed login attempt records when certain services invoked the account phase without first performing authentication. An attacker could possibly use this issue to reset failed login counters, resulting in authentication lockout restrictions being bypassed.

USN-8555-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Ubuntu Advantage Tools. On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS only, it was discovered that some machines were unable to enable esm-infra-legacy due to a preemptive apt-helper check. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Bilal Teke discovered that Ubuntu Advantage Tools exposed the Pro bearer token in command-line arguments when validating APT credentials. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information and gain unauthorized access to Ubuntu Pro repositories. (CVE-2026-9494) Frederick Jerusha discovered that Ubuntu Advantage Tools did not properly validate data received from the contract server when writing APT source files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary APT configuration and execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2026-11386) Mateusz Gierblinski discovered that Ubuntu Advantage Tools did not properly handle symbolic links when collecting diagnostic logs. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information from files owned by the administrator. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-12391)

Alexis Challande discovered that libevent incorrectly handled certain empty output buffers. An attacker could possibly use this issue to trigger a use-after-free, resulting in a denial of service or arbitrary code execution. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-63381) Rajat Raghav discovered that libevent incorrectly handled certain HTTP requests. An attacker could possibly use this issue to desynchronize HTTP request boundaries, resulting in HTTP request smuggling. (CVE-2026-63382) Qiu Sihao discovered that libevent incorrectly handled certain malformed tagged RPC data. An attacker could possibly use this issue to trigger an out-of-bounds read, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-63383) Qiu Sihao discovered that libevent incorrectly handled certain large payload lengths in tagged RPC data. An attacker could possibly use this issue to consume excessive system resources, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-63384) Asaf Meizner discovered that libevent incorrectly handled certain HTTP URIs and header values. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause HTTP messages to be interpreted inconsistently, resulting in security restrictions being bypassed. (CVE-2026-63385)

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To install Yarn in Ubuntu 24.04, use the Yarn repository, node package manager, Corepack, or installation script from the official source.

To Install VLC on Ubuntu 24.04, use the Snap package manager, Apt package installer, Ubuntu App Center, or Flatpak package installer.

To install Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu 24.04, use the Snap Package manager, deb file, VS Code repository, and Ubuntu App Center

Teamviewer can be installed on Ubuntu 24.04 in two ways, either using the official repository or the deb file from its official website.