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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS USN-6215-1 Moderate: Dwarves Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey July 11, 2023
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Gnomes patch notification USN-7216-2 addresses various vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 21.04 and 19.10, enhancing overall performance and security.
Several security issues were fixed in dwarves.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in dwarves.

Software Description:

- dwarves-dfsg: set of advanced DWARF utilities

Details:

It was discovered that dwarves incorrectly handled certain memory

operations under certain circumstances. An attacker could possibly use this

issue to cause dwarves to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or

possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-3534, CVE-2022-3606)

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
  dwarves                         1.21-0ubuntu1~20.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Available with Ubuntu Pro):
  dwarves                         1.21-0ubuntu1~18.04.1+esm1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

CVE-2022-3534, CVE-2022-3606

July 11, 2023

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