USN-4590-1: Collabtive vulnerability

Publication date

19 October 2020

Overview

Collabtive could be made to run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic from an authenticated user.

Releases


Packages

  • collabtive - Web-based project management software

Details

It was discovered that Collabtive did not properly validate avatar image
file uploads. An authenticated user could exploit this with a crafted file
to cause Collabtive to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-0258)

It was discovered that Collabtive did not properly validate avatar image
file uploads. An authenticated user could exploit this with a crafted file
to cause Collabtive to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-0258)

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 collabtive –  2.0+dfsg-6ubuntu1.1

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