{"id":59811,"date":"2024-10-16T16:20:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T13:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/files\/182224\/USN-7040-2.txt"},"modified":"2024-10-16T16:20:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T13:20:20","slug":"ubuntu-security-notice-usn-7040-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/ubuntu-security-notice-usn-7040-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7040-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>==========================================================================<br \/>Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7040-2<br \/>October 14, 2024<\/p>\n<p>configobj vulnerability<br \/>==========================================================================<\/p>\n<p>A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ubuntu 14.04 LTS<\/p>\n<p>Summary:<\/p>\n<p>ConfigObj could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.<\/p>\n<p>Software Description:<br \/>&#8211; configobj: simple but powerful config file reader and writer for Python<\/p>\n<p>Details:<\/p>\n<p>USN-7040-1 fixed a vulnerability in ConfigObj. This update<br \/>provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.<\/p>\n<p>Original advisory details:<\/p>\n<p>It was discovered that ConfigObj contains regex that is susceptible to<br \/>catastrophic backtracking. An attacker could possibly use this issue to<br \/>cause a regular expression denial of service.<\/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 14.04 LTS<br \/>python-configobj 4.7.2+ds-5ubuntu0.1~esm1<br \/>Available with Ubuntu Pro<\/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-7040-2<br \/>https:\/\/ubuntu.com\/security\/notices\/USN-7040-1<br \/>CVE-2023-26112<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>==========================================================================Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7040-2October 14, 2024 configobj vulnerability========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: &#8211; Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary: ConfigObj could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input. Software Description:&#8211; configobj: simple but powerful config file reader and writer for Python Details: USN-7040-1 fixed a vulnerability in &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-59811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59811","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=59811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}