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

ubuntu

February 14, 2023

APR-util could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator if it received specially crafted input.

Summary

APR-util could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator

if it received specially crafted input.

Software Description:

- apr-util: Apache Portable Runtime Utility Library

Details:

Ronald Crane discovered that APR-util did not properly handled memory when

encoding or decoding certain input data. An attacker could possibly use

this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary

code.

Topics Covered

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.