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Ubuntu 19.04 USN-4103-1: Critical Docker Credential Helpers Issue

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Calendar Grey August 19, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Discover the docker-credential-helpers flaw impacting Ubuntu systems and explore effective strategies to safeguard your setup against potential exploitation.
docker-credential-helpers could be made to crash or run programs as your login

Summary

docker-credential-helpers could be made to crash or run programs as your login

Software Description:

- golang-github-docker-docker-credential-helpers: Use native stores to safeguard

Docker credentials

Details:

Jasiel Spelman discovered that a double free existed in docker-credential-helpers. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service

(crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service remote code execution Ubuntu docker-credential-helpers

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 19.04:
  golang-docker-credential-helpers  0.6.1-1ubuntu0.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4103-1

CVE-2019-1020014

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August 19, 2019

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service remote code execution Ubuntu docker-credential-helpers

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/golang-github-docker-docker-credential-helpers/0.6.1-1ubuntu0.1

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