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  2. USN-5885-1

USN-5885-1: APR vulnerability

Publication date

27 February 2023

Overview

APR could possibly be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Releases

Packages

  • apr - Apache Portable Runtime Library

Details

Ronald Crane discovered integer overflow vulnerabilities in the Apache
Portable Runtime (APR) that could potentially result in memory corruption.
A remote attacker could possibly use these issues to cause a denial of
service or execute arbitary code.

Ronald Crane discovered integer overflow vulnerabilities in the Apache
Portable Runtime (APR) that could potentially result in memory corruption.
A remote attacker could possibly use these issues to cause a denial of
service or execute arbitary code.

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 libapr1 –  1.7.0-8ubuntu0.22.10.1
22.04 jammy libapr1 –  1.7.0-8ubuntu0.22.04.1

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