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Ubuntu 19.10: 4173-1 Critical: FreeTDS Denial Of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey October 30, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A vulnerability in FreeTDS on Ubuntu impacts various releases, enabling remote system crashes or arbitrary code execution.
FreeTDS could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Summary

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security advisory denial of service remote attack Ubuntu network traffic freetds ancillary crash

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 19.10: freetds-bin 1.1.6-1ubuntu0.1 libct4 1.1.6-1ubuntu0.1 libsybdb5 1.1.6-1ubuntu0.1 tdsodbc 1.1.6-1ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 19.04: freetds-bin 1.00.104-1ubuntu0.1 libct4 1.00.104-1ubuntu0.1 libsybdb5 1.00.104-1ubuntu0.1 tdsodbc 1.00.104-1ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: freetds-bin 1.00.82-2ubuntu0.1 libct4 1.00.82-2ubuntu0.1 libsybdb5 1.00.82-2ubuntu0.1 tdsodbc 1.00.82-2ubuntu0.1 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4173-1

CVE-2019-13508

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October 30, 2019

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security advisory denial of service remote attack Ubuntu network traffic freetds ancillary crash

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetds/1.1.6-1ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetds/1.00.104-1ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetds/1.00.82-2ubuntu0.1

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