1. Ubuntu Security Notices
  2. USN-4630-1

USN-4630-1: Raptor vulnerability

Publication date

11 November 2020

Overview

raptor2 could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Releases

Packages

Details

Hanno Böck discovered that Raptor incorrectly handled certain memory
operations. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted
document in an application linked against Raptor, an attacker could
cause the application to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or
possibly execute arbitrary code.

Hanno Böck discovered that Raptor incorrectly handled certain memory
operations. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted
document in an application linked against Raptor, an attacker could
cause the application to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or
possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

After a standard system update you need to restart any applications which use Raptor, such as LibreOffice, 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
20.10 groovy libraptor2-0 –  2.0.15-0ubuntu1.20.10.1
20.04 focal libraptor2-0 –  2.0.15-0ubuntu1.20.04.1
18.04 bionic libraptor2-0 –  2.0.14-1ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 xenial libraptor2-0 –  2.0.14-1ubuntu0.16.04.1

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