Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-1635-1

USN-1635-1: libunity-webapps vulnerability

Publication date

21 November 2012

Overview

libunity-webapps could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.

Releases

12.10

Packages

libunity-webapps - UnityWebapps library

Details

It was discovered that libunity-webapps improperly handled certain hash
tables. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libunity-webapps
to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to 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
12.10 quantal	libunity-webapps0 – 2.4.1-0ubuntu3.2

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References

CVE-2012-4551

CVE-2012-4551