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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS USN-2371-1 Critical Exuberant Ctags DoS Risk

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Calendar Grey October 8, 2014
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Tackling the Critical Ctags flaw in Ubuntu affecting system operations and posing risks for DoS attacks. Immediate patch suggested.
Exuberant Ctags could be made to consume resources.

Summary

Exuberant Ctags could be made to consume resources.

Software Description:

- exuberant-ctags: build tag file indexes of source code definitions

Details:

It was discovered that Exuberant Ctags incorrectly handled certain minified

js files. An attacker could use this issue to possibly cause Exuberant

Ctags to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical ubuntu resource exploit

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  exuberant-ctags                 1:5.9~svn20110310-7ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
  exuberant-ctags                 1:5.9~svn20110310-3ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2014-7204

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October 08, 2014

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical ubuntu resource exploit

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/exuberant-ctags/1:5.9~svn20110310-7ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/exuberant-ctags/1:5.9~svn20110310-3ubuntu0.1

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