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Ubuntu 24.10: USN-7117-2 critical: needrestart regression resolved

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Calendar Grey November 26, 2024
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Explore the latest enhancements for Ubuntu's needrestart, featuring essential patches for security vulnerabilities as well as a fix for the recent regression.
USN-7117-1 caused some regression in needrestart.

Summary

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 24.10 - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary: USN-7117-1 caused some regression in needrestart. Software Description: - needrestart: check which daemons need to be restarted after library upgrades Details: USN-7117-1 fixed vulnerabilities in needrestart. The update introduced a regression in needrestart. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Qualys discovered that needrestart passed unsanitized data to a library (libmodule-scandeps-perl) which expects safe input. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code as root. (CVE-2024-11003) Qualys discovered that the library libmodule-scandeps-perl incorrectly parsed perl code. This could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands. (CVE-2024-...

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security advisory software update Ubuntu local attack arbitrary code regression needrestart

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 24.10 needrestart 3.6-8ubuntu4.3 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS needrestart 3.6-7ubuntu4.4 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS needrestart 3.5-5ubuntu2.3 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS needrestart 3.4-6ubuntu0.1+esm2 Available with Ubuntu Pro Ubuntu 18.04 LTS needrestart 3.1-1ubuntu0.1+esm2 Available with Ubuntu Pro Ubuntu 16.04 LTS needrestart 2.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 Available with Ubuntu Pro In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7117-2

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7117-1

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/needrestart/+bug/2089193

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7117-2

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security advisory software update Ubuntu local attack arbitrary code regression needrestart

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/needrestart/3.6-8ubuntu4.3 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/needrestart/3.6-7ubuntu4.4 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/needrestart/3.5-5ubuntu2.3

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