USN-4085-1: Sigil vulnerability
Sigil vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 19.04
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Summary
Sigil could be made to overwrite files.
Software Description
- sigil – multi-platform ebook editor
Details
Mike Salvatore discovered that Sigil mishandled certain malformed EPUB
files. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to
the filesystem.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 19.04
- sigil – 0.9.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1
- sigil-data – 0.9.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- sigil – 0.9.9+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
- sigil-data – 0.9.9+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- sigil – 0.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu1+esm1
- sigil-data – 0.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu1+esm1
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
Source: USN-4085-1: Sigil vulnerability
