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Ubuntu 22.10: 5742-1 Critical: jbigkit Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey November 24, 2022
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The recently discovered JBIG-KIT flaw impacts a range of Ubuntu versions, enabling malicious actors to trigger a denial of service condition.
JBIG-KIT could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

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Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 22.10:   jbigkit-bin                     2.1-3.1ubuntu0.22.10.1   libjbig0                        2.1-3.1ubuntu0.22.10.1 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:   jbigkit-bin                     2.1-3.1ubuntu0.22.04.1   libjbig0                        2.1-3.1ubuntu0.22.04.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:   jbigkit-bin                     2.1-3.1ubuntu0.20.04.1   libjbig0                        2.1-3.1ubuntu0.20.04.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:   jbigkit-bin                     2.1-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.1   libjbig0                        2.1-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.1 Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:   jbigkit-bin                     2.1-3.1ubuntu0.1~esm1   libjbig0                        2.1-3.1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:   jbigkit-bin                     2.0-2ubuntu4.1+esm1   libjbig0                        2.0-2ubuntu4.1+esm1 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5742-1

  CVE-2017-9937

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November 24, 2022

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Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jbigkit/2.1-3.1ubuntu0.22.10.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jbigkit/2.1-3.1ubuntu0.22.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jbigkit/2.1-3.1ubuntu0.20.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jbigkit/2.1-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.1

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