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Ubuntu 22.10 USN-5786-1 Moderate: nautilus Denial Of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey January 5, 2023
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
GNOME Files within Ubuntu might encounter crashes due to specially designed files, necessitating updates for nautilus across multiple versions.
GNOME Files could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Summary

GNOME Files could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.

Software Description:

- nautilus: file manager and graphical shell for GNOME

Details:

It was discovered that GNOME Files incorrectly handled certain filenames.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GNOME Files to crash,

leading to a denial of service.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Ubuntu crash nautilus GNOME Files

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.10:
   nautilus                        1:43.0-1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
   nautilus                        1:42.2-0ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
   nautilus                        1:3.36.3-0ubuntu1.20.04.2

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
   nautilus                        1:3.26.4-0~ubuntu18.04.6

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all
the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5786-1

CVE-2022-37290

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January 05, 2023

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Ubuntu crash nautilus GNOME Files

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/1:43.0-1ubuntu2.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/1:3.36.3-0ubuntu1.20.04.2

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