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Ubuntu 23.04 USN-6398-1 Moderate: Minidlna Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey September 27, 2023
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Uncover significant challenges within ReadyMedia impacting various iterations of Ubuntu and explore effective solutions through system updates.
Several security issues were fixed in ReadyMedia.

Summary

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 23.04 - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Available with Ubuntu Pro) - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Available with Ubuntu Pro) Summary: Several security issues were fixed in ReadyMedia. Software Description: - minidlna: lightweight DLNA/UPnP-AV server targeted at embedded systems Details: It was discovered that ReadyMedia was vulnerable to DNS rebinding attacks. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to trick the local DLNA server to leak information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-26505) It was discovered that ReadyMedia incorrectly handled certain HTTP requests using chunked transport encoding. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause buffer overflows, resulting in out-of-bounds reads and writes. (CVE-2023-33476)

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 23.04: minidlna 1.3.0+dfsg-2.2ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS: minidlna 1.3.0+dfsg-2.1ubuntu0.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS: minidlna 1.2.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.20.04.2 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Available with Ubuntu Pro): minidlna 1.2.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.18.04.1+esm1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Available with Ubuntu Pro): minidlna 1.1.5+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1+esm1 In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6398-1

CVE-2022-26505, CVE-2023-33476

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6398-1

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/minidlna/1.3.0+dfsg-2.2ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/minidlna/1.3.0+dfsg-2.1ubuntu0.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/minidlna/1.2.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.20.04.2

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