USN-4276-1: Yubico PIV Tool vulnerabilities
USN-4276-1: Yubico PIV Tool vulnerabilities Yubico PIV Tool vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Summary Yubico PIV Tool could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator if it received specially crafted input. Software Description yubico-piv-tool – Command line tool for the YubiKey PIV applet Details It was discovered that libykpiv, a supporting library of the Yubico PIV Tool and YubiKey PIV Manager, mishandled specially crafted input. An attacker with a custom-made, malicious USB device could potentially execute arbitrary code on a computer running the Yubico PIV Tool or Yubikey PIV Manager. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS libykpiv1 – 1.4.2-2ubuntu0.1 ykcs11 – 1.4.2-2ubuntu0.1 yubico-piv-tool – 1.4.2-2ubuntu0.1 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. [ more… ]