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Ubuntu 18.04/16.04: USN-4326-1 Moderate: libiberty Security Issues

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Calendar Grey April 8, 2020
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Several vulnerabilities in libiberty have been resolved in Ubuntu's latest security patch, which mitigates potential service disruptions.
Several security issues were fixed in libiberty.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in libiberty.

Software Description:

- libiberty: library of utility functions used by GNU programs

Details:

It was discovered that libiberty incorrectly handled parsing certain

binaries. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a

specially crafted binary, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause

libiberty to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute

arbitrary code

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Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  libiberty-dev                   20170913-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  libiberty-dev                   20160215-1ubuntu0.3

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4326-1

CVE-2018-12641, CVE-2018-12697, CVE-2018-12698, CVE-2018-12934,

CVE-2018-17794, CVE-2018-17985, CVE-2018-18483, CVE-2018-18484,

CVE-2018-18700, CVE-2018-18701, CVE-2018-9138, CVE-2019-14250,

CVE-2019-9070, CVE-2019-9071

April 08, 2020

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