USN-4243-1: libbsd vulnerabilities
libbsd vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 19.04
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
- Ubuntu 12.04 ESM
Summary
Several security issues were fixed in libbsd.
Software Description
- libbsd – utility functions from BSD systems – development files
Details
It was discovered that libbsd incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-2090)
It was discovered that libbsd incorrectly handled certain strings.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information.
(CVE-2019-20367)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 19.04
- libbsd0 – 0.9.1-2ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- libbsd0 – 0.8.7-1ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- libbsd0 – 0.8.2-1ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
- libbsd0 – 0.6.0-2ubuntu1+esm1
- Ubuntu 12.04 ESM
- libbsd0 – 0.3.0-2ubuntu0.1
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
Source: USN-4243-1: libbsd vulnerabilities
