USN-3971-1: Monit vulnerabilities
USN-3971-1: Monit vulnerabilities Monit vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.04 Ubuntu 18.10 Summary Several security issues were fixed in Monit Software Description monit – utility for monitoring and managing daemons or similar programs Details Zack Flack discovered that Monit incorrectly handled certain input. A remote authenticated user could exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. (CVE-2019-11454) Zack Flack discovered a buffer overread when Monit decoded certain crafted URLs. An attacker could exploit this to leak potentially sensitive information. (CVE-2019-11455) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.04 monit – 1:5.25.2-3ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 18.10 monit – 1:5.25.2-1ubuntu0.1 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. References CVE-2019-11454 CVE-2019-11455 Source: USN-3971-1: [ more… ]
