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Ubuntu 14.04 ESM USN-4677-3 Critical: p11-Kit Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey January 6, 2021
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
On February 12, 2021, Debian issued DSA-4825-1 tackling the vulnerabilities in libjpeg-turbo impacting Debian 9 (Stretch).
Several security issues were fixed in p11-kit.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in p11-kit.

Software Description:

- p11-kit: p11-glue utilities

Details:

USN-4677-1 fixed a vulnerability in p11-kit. This update provides

the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

David Cook discovered that p11-kit incorrectly handled certain memory

operations. An attacker could use this issue to cause p11-kit 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 14.04 ESM:
  libp11-kit0                     0.20.2-2ubuntu2+esm1
  p11-kit                         0.20.2-2ubuntu2+esm1
  p11-kit-modules                 0.20.2-2ubuntu2+esm1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4677-2

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4677-1

CVE-2020-29361

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January 06, 2021

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