vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-4243-1 (CVE-2016-2090): libbsd vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 13, 2017
Added
Jan 21, 2020
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

It was discovered that libbsd incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. (CVE-2016-2090)

It was discovered that libbsd incorrectly handled certain strings.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information.
(CVE-2019-20367)

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libbsd0
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