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  2. USN-5820-1

USN-5820-1: exuberant-ctags vulnerability

Publication date

24 January 2023

Overview

Exuberant ctags could be make to perform arbitary command execution if run with maliciously crafted user input

Releases

Packages

Details

Lorenz Hipp discovered a flaw in exuberant-ctags handling of the tag
filename command-line argument. A crafted tag filename specified
in the command line or in the configuration file could result in
arbitrary command execution.

Lorenz Hipp discovered a flaw in exuberant-ctags handling of the tag
filename command-line argument. A crafted tag filename specified
in the command line or in the configuration file could result in
arbitrary command execution.

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
22.10 kinetic exuberant-ctags –  1:5.9~svn20110310-16ubuntu0.22.10.1
22.04 jammy exuberant-ctags –  1:5.9~svn20110310-16ubuntu0.22.04.1
20.04 focal exuberant-ctags –  1:5.9~svn20110310-12ubuntu0.1
18.04 bionic exuberant-ctags –  1:5.9~svn20110310-11ubuntu0.1
16.04 xenial exuberant-ctags –  1:5.9~svn20110310-11ubuntu0.1~esm1  

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