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Ubuntu: USN-4851-1 (CVE-2018-20533): Libsolv vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4851-1 (CVE-2018-20533): Libsolv vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/28/2018
Created
04/22/2019
Added
04/01/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

There is a NULL pointer dereference at ext/testcase.c (function testcase_str2dep_complex) in libsolvext.a in libsolv through 0.7.2 that will cause a denial of service.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libsolv-tools
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libsolv0
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libsolvext0

References

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