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Ubuntu 8.04 LTS USN-813-1 Moderate: Apr Input Flaw Leading To DoS

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Calendar Grey August 8, 2009
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A serious vulnerability in the apr package for Ubuntu poses significant security threats, such as remote code execution and denial of service, necessitating swift updates from the Ubuntu team
Matt Lewis discovered that apr did not properly sanitize its input whenallocating memory

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security advisory moderate denial of service code execution Ubuntu input sanitization apr

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apr vulnerability

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security advisory moderate denial of service code execution Ubuntu input sanitization apr

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