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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS USN-4558-1: Libapreq2 Crash Risk from Network Traffic

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Calendar Grey September 30, 2020
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4560-1 addresses a serious libcurl vulnerability that may result in system instability when encountering certain types of URL requests.
libapreq2 could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Summary

libapreq2 could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network

traffic.

Software Description:

- libapreq2: a safe, standards-compliant, high-performance library used for

parsing HTTP cookies, query-strings and POST data

Details:

It was discovered that libapreq2 did not properly sanitize the Content-Type

field in certain, crafted HTTP requests. An attacker could use this

vulnerability to cause libapreq2 to crash.

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Topics Covered

security advisory software patch update instructions ubuntu libapreq2 crash network issue

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  libapache2-mod-apreq2           2.13-7~deb10u1build0.18.04.1
  libapache2-request-perl         2.13-7~deb10u1build0.18.04.1
  libapreq2-3                     2.13-7~deb10u1build0.18.04.1
  libapreq2-dev                   2.13-7~deb10u1build0.18.04.1

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

References

CVE-2019-12412

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September 30, 2020

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security advisory software patch update instructions ubuntu libapreq2 crash network issue

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libapreq2/2.13-7~deb10u1build0.18.04.1
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