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Ubuntu 23.04 USN-6292-1 Critical: Ceph Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey August 16, 2023
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Mitigating Ceph weakness in Ubuntu 23.04 is essential to avert unauthorized software operations as an admin. Ensure updates are applied promptly.
Ceph could be made to run programs as an administrator.

Summary

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 23.04 Summary: Ceph could be made to run programs as an administrator. Software Description: - ceph: distributed storage and file system Details: It was discovered that Ceph incorrectly handled crash dumps. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges to root.

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security advisory critical privilege escalation ubuntu administrator access ceph

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 23.04: ceph 17.2.6-0ubuntu0.23.04.2 ceph-base 17.2.6-0ubuntu0.23.04.2 ceph-common 17.2.6-0ubuntu0.23.04.2 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6292-1

CVE-2022-3650

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6292-1

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security advisory critical privilege escalation ubuntu administrator access ceph

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ceph/17.2.6-0ubuntu0.23.04.2

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