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USN-4087-1: BWA vulnerability BWA vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.04 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Summary BWA could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file. Software Description bwa – Software package for mapping DNA sequences against a large reference genome Details It was discovered that Burrows-Wheeler Aligner (BWA) mishandled certain crafted .alt files. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.04 bwa – 0.7.17-3~ubuntu0.19.04.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS bwa – 0.7.17-1ubuntu0.1 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. References CVE-2019-10269 Source: USN-4087-1: BWA [ more… ]

USN-4086-1: Mercurial vulnerability Mercurial vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.04 Summary Mercurial could be made to overwrite files. Software Description mercurial – easy-to-use, scalable distributed version control system Details It was discovered that Mercurial mishandled symlinks in subrepositories. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to the target’s filesystem. Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.04 mercurial – 4.8.2-1ubuntu3.19.04.1 mercurial-common – 4.8.2-1ubuntu3.19.04.1 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes. References CVE-2019-3902 Source: USN-4086-1: Mercurial vulnerability

USN-4049-4: GLib regression glib2.0 regression A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 14.04 ESM Ubuntu 12.04 ESM Summary USN-4049-1 introduced a regression in GLib. Software Description glib2.0 – GLib Input, Output and Streaming Library (fam module) Details USN-4049-1 fixed a vulnerability in GLib. The update introduced a regression. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that GLib created directories and files without properly restricting permissions. 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 14.04 ESM libglib2.0-0 – 2.40.2-0ubuntu1.1+esm3 libglib2.0-bin – 2.40.2-0ubuntu1.1+esm3 Ubuntu 12.04 ESM libglib2.0-0 – 2.32.4-0ubuntu1.4 libglib2.0-bin – 2.32.4-0ubuntu1.4 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. In general, a standard system update will [ more… ]