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USN-4002-1: Doxygen vulnerability

3 June 2019

Doxygen could be made to run scripts as your login if it received a specially crafted query.

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Releases

Packages

  • doxygen - Documentation system for C, C++, Java, Python and other languages

Details

It was discovered that Doxygen incorrectly handled certain queries.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code
and compromise sensitive information.

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Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 16.04

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References