USN-4326-1: libiberty vulnerabilities
USN-4326-1: libiberty vulnerabilities libiberty vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in libiberty. Software Description libiberty – library of utility functions used by GNU programs Details It was discovered that libiberty incorrectly handled parsing certain binaries. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted binary, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause libiberty to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS libiberty-dev – 20170913-1ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS libiberty-dev – 20160215-1ubuntu0.3 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 [ more… ]
