Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 758
Alerts This Week
Warning Icon 1 758

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: USN-4590-1 Moderate: Collabtive Arbitrary Code

ubuntu
Calendar Grey October 19, 2020
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4590-1 addresses a security flaw in Collabtive impacting 16.04 LTS. Patches have been provided.
Collabtive could be made to run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic from an authenticated user.

Summary

Collabtive could be made to run programs if it received

specially crafted network traffic from an authenticated user.

Software Description:

- collabtive: Web-based project management software

Details:

It was discovered that Collabtive did not properly validate avatar image

file uploads. An authenticated user could exploit this with a crafted file

to cause Collabtive to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-0258)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update arbitrary code ubuntu authenticated user collabtive

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  collabtive                      2.0+dfsg-6ubuntu1.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4590-1

CVE-2015-0258

October 19, 2020

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue software update arbitrary code ubuntu authenticated user collabtive

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/collabtive/2.0+dfsg-6ubuntu1.1

Get the latest News and Insights

Get the latest Linux and open source security news straight to your inbox.

Your message here