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Ubuntu 19.04 LTS, 18.04 LTS: USN-4152-1 Moderate: Libsoup DoS

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Calendar Grey October 9, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Announcement USN-4153-1 responds to a vulnerabilities in gnome-shell that could result in unauthorized access from crafted input.
libsoup could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Summary

libsoup could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network

traffic.

Software Description:

- libsoup2.4: HTTP client/server library for GNOME

Details:

It was discovered that libsoup incorrectly handled parsing certain NTLM

messages. If a user or automated system were tricked into connecting to a

malicious server, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause

a denial of service.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service ubuntu libsoup network issue

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 19.04:
  libsoup2.4-1                    2.66.1-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  libsoup2.4-1                    2.62.1-1ubuntu0.4

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4152-1

CVE-2019-17266

October 09, 2019

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service ubuntu libsoup network issue

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libsoup2.4/2.66.1-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libsoup2.4/2.62.1-1ubuntu0.4

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