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USN-3859-1: libarchive vulnerabilities libarchive vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 18.10 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in libarchive. Software Description libarchive – Library to read/write archive files Details It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain archive files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. CVE-2018-1000880 affected only Ubuntu 18.04 and Ubuntu 18.10 LTS. (CVE-2018-1000877, CVE-2018-1000878, CVE-2018-1000880) It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain archive files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-14502) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 18.10 libarchive13 – 3.2.2-5ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS [ more… ]

USN-3858-1: HAProxy vulnerabilities haproxy vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 18.10 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in HAProxy. Software Description haproxy – fast and reliable load balancing reverse proxy Details It was discovered that HAProxy incorrectly handled certain requests. An attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2018-20102) It was discovered that HAProxy incorrectly handled certain requests. A attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.10. (CVE-2018-20103, CVE-2018-20615) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 18.10 haproxy – 1.8.13-2ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS haproxy – 1.8.8-1ubuntu0.3 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS haproxy – 1.6.3-1ubuntu0.2 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. [ more… ]