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Ubuntu 22.10: 5870-1 Critical: APR-Util Denial Of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey February 14, 2023
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A vulnerability in APR-util on Ubuntu may allow attackers to disrupt applications or escalate privileges through specially crafted input. Discover more details today.
APR-util could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator if it received specially crafted input.

Summary

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security advisory denial of service security issue critical ubuntu apr-util

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 22.10: libaprutil1 1.6.1-5ubuntu4.22.10.1 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: libaprutil1 1.6.1-5ubuntu4.22.04.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: libaprutil1 1.6.1-4ubuntu2.1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS: libaprutil1 1.6.1-2ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 16.04 ESM: libaprutil1 1.5.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 Ubuntu 14.04 ESM: libaprutil1 1.5.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 After a standard system update you need to restart any application using APR-util libraries to make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5870-1

CVE-2022-25147

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February 14, 2023

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security advisory denial of service security issue critical ubuntu apr-util

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apr-util/1.6.1-5ubuntu4.22.10.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apr-util/1.6.1-5ubuntu4.22.04.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apr-util/1.6.1-4ubuntu2.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apr-util/1.6.1-2ubuntu0.1

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