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USN-3411-1: Bazaar vulnerability

6 September 2017

Bazaar could be made run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted URL.

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Releases

Packages

  • bzr - easy to use distributed version control system

Details

Adam Collard discovered that Bazaar did not properly handle host names
in 'bzr+ssh://' URLs. A remote attacker could use this to construct
a bazaar repository URL that when accessed could run arbitrary code
with the privileges of the user.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 17.04
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.