{"id":56350,"date":"2024-04-18T21:30:18","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T17:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/files\/178132\/USN-6737-1.txt"},"modified":"2024-04-18T21:30:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T17:30:18","slug":"ubuntu-security-notice-usn-6737-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/ubuntu-security-notice-usn-6737-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6737-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>==========================================================================<br \/>Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6737-1<br \/>April 18, 2024<\/p>\n<p>glibc vulnerability<br \/>==========================================================================<\/p>\n<p>A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ubuntu 23.10<br \/>&#8211; Ubuntu 22.04 LTS<br \/>&#8211; Ubuntu 20.04 LTS<\/p>\n<p>Summary:<\/p>\n<p>GNU C Library could be made to crash or run programs if it processed<br \/>specially crafted data.<\/p>\n<p>Software Description:<br \/>&#8211; glibc: GNU C Library<\/p>\n<p>Details:<\/p>\n<p>Charles Fol discovered that the GNU C Library iconv feature incorrectly<br \/>handled certain input sequences. An attacker could use this issue to cause<br \/>the GNU C Library to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly<br \/>execute arbitrary code.<\/p>\n<p>Update instructions:<\/p>\n<p>The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following<br \/>package versions:<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu 23.10:<br \/>libc6 2.38-1ubuntu6.2<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:<br \/>libc6 2.35-0ubuntu3.7<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:<br \/>libc6 2.31-0ubuntu9.15<\/p>\n<p>After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make<br \/>all the necessary changes.<\/p>\n<p>References:<br \/>https:\/\/ubuntu.com\/security\/notices\/USN-6737-1<br \/>CVE-2024-2961<\/p>\n<p>Package Information:<br \/>https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/glibc\/2.38-1ubuntu6.2<br \/>https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/glibc\/2.35-0ubuntu3.7<br \/>https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/glibc\/2.31-0ubuntu9.15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>==========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6737-1April 18, 2024 glibc vulnerability========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: &#8211; Ubuntu 23.10&#8211; Ubuntu 22.04 LTS&#8211; Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Summary: GNU C Library could be made to crash or run programs if it processedspecially crafted data. Software Description:&#8211; glibc: GNU C Library Details: Charles Fol discovered &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56350","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=56350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}