USN-4038-3: bzip2 regression
USN-4038-3: bzip2 regression bzip2 vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.04 Ubuntu 18.10 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary USN-4038-1 introduced a regression in bzip2. Software Description bzip2 – high-quality block-sorting file compressor – utilities Details USN-4038-1 fixed a vulnerability in bzip2. The update introduced a regression causing bzip2 to incorrect raises CRC errors for some files. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that bzip2 incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.04 bzip2 – 1.0.6-9ubuntu0.19.04.1 libbz2-1.0 – 1.0.6-9ubuntu0.19.04.1 Ubuntu 18.10 bzip2 – 1.0.6-9ubuntu0.18.10.1 libbz2-1.0 – 1.0.6-9ubuntu0.18.10.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS bzip2 – 1.0.6-8.1ubuntu0.2 libbz2-1.0 – 1.0.6-8.1ubuntu0.2 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS bzip2 – 1.0.6-8ubuntu0.2 [ more… ]
