USN-4176-1: GNU cpio vulnerability
USN-4176-1: GNU cpio vulnerability cpio vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.10 Ubuntu 19.04 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 ESM Ubuntu 12.04 ESM Summary GNU cpio could be made to expose sensitive information if it received a specially crafted input. Software Description cpio – a tool to manage archives of files Details Thomas Habets discovered that GNU cpio incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.10 cpio – 2.12+dfsg-9ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 19.04 cpio – 2.12+dfsg-6ubuntu0.19.04.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS cpio – 2.12+dfsg-6ubuntu0.18.04.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS cpio – 2.11+dfsg-5ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 14.04 ESM cpio – 2.11+dfsg-1ubuntu1.2+esm1 Ubuntu 12.04 ESM cpio – 2.11-7ubuntu3.3 To update your system, please follow these [ more… ]