USN-4722-1: ReadyMedia (MiniDLNA) vulnerabilities

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minidlna - lightweight DLNA/UPnP-AV server targeted at embedded systems

Details

It was discovered that ReadyMedia (MiniDLNA) allowed subscription requests with
a delivery URL on a different network segment than the fully qualified event-
subscription URL. An attacker could use this to hijack smart devices and cause
denial of service attacks. (CVE-2020-12695)

It was discovered that ReadyMedia (MiniDLNA) allowed remote code execution.
A remote attacker could send a malicious UPnP HTTP request to the service
using HTTP chunked encoding and cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2020-28926)

It was discovered that ReadyMedia (MiniDLNA) allowed subscription requests with
a delivery URL on a different network segment than the fully qualified event-
subscription URL. An attacker could use this to hijack smart devices and cause
denial of service attacks. (CVE-2020-12695)

It was discovered that ReadyMedia (MiniDLNA) allowed remote code execution.
A remote attacker could send a malicious UPnP HTTP request to the service
using HTTP chunked encoding and cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2020-28926)

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Ubuntu Release	Package Version
20.10 groovy	minidlna – 1.2.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1
20.04 focal	minidlna – 1.2.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.20.04.1
18.04 bionic	minidlna – 1.2.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 xenial	minidlna – 1.1.5+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1

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