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Ubuntu 21.10 & 20.04 LTS: USN-5148-1 Moderate: Hivex Information Leak

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Calendar Grey November 16, 2021
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The Jaxen flaw has the potential to trigger system failures or unauthorized information exposure due to particular malicious inputs, affecting numerous Fedora releases.
hivex could be made to crash or leak information if it received specially crafted input.

Summary

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue information leak Ubuntu update instructions crash hivex

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 21.10: libhivex-bin 1.3.19-1ubuntu3.21.10.1 libhivex0 1.3.19-1ubuntu3.21.10.1 Ubuntu 21.04: libhivex-bin 1.3.19-1ubuntu3.21.04.1 libhivex0 1.3.19-1ubuntu3.21.04.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: libhivex-bin 1.3.18-2ubuntu0.1 libhivex0 1.3.18-2ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: libhivex-bin 1.3.15-1ubuntu0.1 libhivex0 1.3.15-1ubuntu0.1 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5148-1

CVE-2021-3504

November 16, 2021

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue information leak Ubuntu update instructions crash hivex

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hivex/1.3.19-1ubuntu3.21.10.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hivex/1.3.19-1ubuntu3.21.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hivex/1.3.18-2ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hivex/1.3.15-1ubuntu0.1

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