USN-5184-1: libmysofa vulnerability

Publication date

8 December 2021

Overview

libmysofa could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.

Releases

20.04 LTS 18.04 LTS

Packages

It was discovered that libmysofa mishandled certain input. An attacker could
use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service (crash).

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

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

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
20.04 focal	libmysofa1 – 1.0~dfsg0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
18.04 bionic	libmysofa0 – 0.6~dfsg0-3+deb10u1ubuntu0.1~esm1

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