USN-1022-1: APR-util vulnerability
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1022-1
25th November, 2010
apr-util vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 10.10
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 9.10
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Software description
- apr-util
Details
It was discovered that APR-util did not properly handle memory when
destroying APR buckets. An attacker could exploit this and cause a denial
of service via memory exhaustion.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 10.10:
- libaprutil1 1.3.9+dfsg-3ubuntu0.10.10.1
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS:
- libaprutil1 1.3.9+dfsg-3ubuntu0.10.04.1
- Ubuntu 9.10:
- libaprutil1 1.3.9+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1
- Ubuntu 8.04 LTS:
- libaprutil1 1.2.12+dfsg-3ubuntu0.3
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
After a standard system update you need to restart any applications using
APR-util, such as Subversion and Apache, to make all the necessary changes.