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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6964-1: Moderate orc Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey August 15, 2024
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Attention: An Ubuntu security bulletin details urgent updates for vulnerabilities associated with ORC, potentially affecting system integrity and heightening unauthorized code execution risks
ORC could be made to crash or execute arbitrary code

Summary

ORC could be made to crash or execute arbitrary code

Software Description:

- orc: Library of Optimized Inner Loops Runtime Compiler

Details:

Noriko Totsuka discovered that ORC incorrectly handled certain

crafted file. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute

arbitrary code.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate code execution ubuntu system crash orc

Update Instructions

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

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  liborc-0.4-0t64                 1:0.4.38-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  liborc-0.4-0                    1:0.4.32-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  liborc-0.4-0                    1:0.4.31-1ubuntu0.1

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

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6964-1

CVE-2024-40897

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6964-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate code execution ubuntu system crash orc

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/orc/1:0.4.38-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/orc/1:0.4.31-1ubuntu0.1

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