USN-3891-1: systemd vulnerability
USN-3891-1: systemd vulnerability systemd vulnerability A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 18.10 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary systemd could be made to crash if it received specially a crafted D-Bus message. Software Description systemd – system and service manager Details It was discovered that systemd incorrectly handled certain D-Bus messages. A local unprivileged attacker could exploit this in order to crash the init process, resulting in a system denial-of-service (kernel panic). Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 18.10 libsystemd0 – 239-7ubuntu10.8 systemd – 239-7ubuntu10.8 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS libsystemd0 – 237-3ubuntu10.13 systemd – 237-3ubuntu10.13 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS libsystemd0 – 229-4ubuntu21.16 systemd – 229-4ubuntu21.16 To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. After a standard system update you need to reboot your [ more… ]
