USN-4294-1: OpenSMTPD vulnerabilities
USN-4294-1: OpenSMTPD vulnerabilities OpenSMTPD vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.10 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in opensmtpd. Software Description opensmtpd – secure, reliable, lean, and easy-to configure SMTP server Details It was discovered that OpenSMTPD mishandled certain input. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this vulnerability to execute arbitrary shell commands as any non-root user. (CVE-2020-8794) It was discovered that OpenSMTPD did not properly handle hardlinks under certain conditions. An unprivileged local attacker could read the first line of any file on the filesystem. (CVE-2020-8793) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.10 opensmtpd – 6.0.3p1-6ubuntu0.2 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS opensmtpd – 6.0.3p1-1ubuntu0.2 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. In general, a standard system update will [ more… ]