vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4500-1 (CVE-2014-9862): bsdiff vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 21, 2016
Added
Sep 16, 2020
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

It was discovered that bsdiff mishandled certain input. If a user were tricked
into opening a malicious file, an attacker could cause bsdiff to crash or
potentially execute arbitrary code.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-bsdiff
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