{"id":59062,"date":"2024-08-21T17:51:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T14:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/files\/180295\/USN-6970-1.txt"},"modified":"2024-08-21T17:51:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T14:51:13","slug":"ubuntu-security-notice-usn-6970-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/ubuntu-security-notice-usn-6970-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6970-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>==========================================================================<br \/>Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6970-1<br \/>August 20, 2024<\/p>\n<p>exfatprogs vulnerability<br \/>==========================================================================<\/p>\n<p>A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ubuntu 22.04 LTS<\/p>\n<p>Summary:<\/p>\n<p>exfatprogs could be made to crash or run programs if it handled a specially<br \/>crafted partition.<\/p>\n<p>Software Description:<br \/>&#8211; exfatprogs: tools to create, check and label exFAT filesystems<\/p>\n<p>Details:<\/p>\n<p>It was discovered that exfatprogs incorrectly handled certain memory<br \/>operations. If a user or automated system were tricked into handling<br \/>specially crafted exfat partitions, a remote attacker could use this issue<br \/>to cause exfatprogs 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 22.04 LTS<br \/>exfatprogs 1.1.3-1ubuntu0.1<\/p>\n<p>In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.<\/p>\n<p>References:<br \/>https:\/\/ubuntu.com\/security\/notices\/USN-6970-1<br \/>CVE-2023-45897<\/p>\n<p>Package Information:<br \/>https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/exfatprogs\/1.1.3-1ubuntu0.1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>==========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6970-1August 20, 2024 exfatprogs vulnerability========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: &#8211; Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Summary: exfatprogs could be made to crash or run programs if it handled a speciallycrafted partition. Software Description:&#8211; exfatprogs: tools to create, check and label exFAT filesystems Details: It was discovered that &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-59062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59062","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=59062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}