{"id":25923,"date":"2022-06-19T23:29:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T19:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/files\/167468\/USN-5478-1.txt"},"modified":"2022-06-26T09:51:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T05:21:49","slug":"ubuntu-security-notice-usn-5478-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/ubuntu-security-notice-usn-5478-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5478-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">==========================================================================<br \/>\nUbuntu Security Notice USN-5478-1<br \/>\nJune 14, 2022<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">util-linux vulnerability<br \/>\n==========================================================================<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8211; Ubuntu 16.04 ESM<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Summary:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">A util-linux program could be made to crash if it opened a specially<br \/>\ncrafted file system.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Software Description:<br \/>\n&#8211; util-linux: miscellaneous system utilities<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Details:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Christian Moch and Michael Gruhn discovered that the libblkid library<br \/>\nof util-linux did not properly manage memory under certain<br \/>\ncircumstances. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause<br \/>\ndenial of service by consuming all memory through<br \/>\na specially crafted MSDOS partition table.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Update instructions:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following<br \/>\npackage versions:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:<br \/>\nlibblkid1 2.27.1-6ubuntu3.10+esm2<br \/>\nutil-linux 2.27.1-6ubuntu3.10+esm2<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">References:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/ubuntu.com\/security\/notices\/USN-5478-1<br \/>\nCVE-2016-5011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5478-1 June 14, 2022 util-linux vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: &#8211; Ubuntu 16.04 ESM Summary: A util-linux program could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file system. Software Description: &#8211; util-linux: miscellaneous system utilities Details: Christian Moch and Michael &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}