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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: USN-4148-1 Critical: OpenEXR Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey October 7, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A series of security flaws in OpenEXR for various Ubuntu releases exposes systems to potential exploits that may allow remote code execution and pose risks of denial of service attacks.
Several security issues were fixed in OpenEXR.

Summary

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security advisory denial of service remote code execution OpenEXR Ubuntu 18.04 Ubuntu 19.04

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.04: libopenexr23 2.2.1-4.1ubuntu0.1 openexr 2.2.1-4.1ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: libopenexr22 2.2.0-11.1ubuntu1.1 openexr 2.2.0-11.1ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: libopenexr22 2.2.0-10ubuntu2.1 openexr 2.2.0-10ubuntu2.1 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4148-1

CVE-2017-12596, CVE-2017-9110, CVE-2017-9111, CVE-2017-9112,

CVE-2017-9113, CVE-2017-9115, CVE-2017-9116, CVE-2018-18444

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October 07, 2019

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security advisory denial of service remote code execution OpenEXR Ubuntu 18.04 Ubuntu 19.04

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openexr/2.2.1-4.1ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openexr/2.2.0-11.1ubuntu1.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openexr/2.2.0-10ubuntu2.1

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