USN-4243-1: libbsd vulnerabilities
USN-4243-1: libbsd vulnerabilities libbsd vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.04 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 ESM Ubuntu 12.04 ESM Summary Several security issues were fixed in libbsd. Software Description libbsd – utility functions from BSD systems – development files Details It was discovered that libbsd incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-2090) It was discovered that libbsd incorrectly handled certain strings. An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information. (CVE-2019-20367) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.04 libbsd0 – 0.9.1-2ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS libbsd0 – 0.8.7-1ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS libbsd0 – 0.8.2-1ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 14.04 ESM libbsd0 – 0.6.0-2ubuntu1+esm1 Ubuntu [ more… ]