1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-4002-1

USN-4002-1: Doxygen vulnerability

Publication date

3 June 2019

Overview

Doxygen could be made to run scripts as your login if it received a specially crafted query.

Releases

Packages

  • doxygen - Documentation system for C, C++, Java, Python and other languages

Details

It was discovered that Doxygen incorrectly handled certain queries.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code
and compromise sensitive information.

It was discovered that Doxygen incorrectly handled certain queries.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code
and compromise sensitive information.

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
16.04 xenial doxygen –  1.8.11-1ubuntu0.1

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