USN-5556-1: Booth vulnerability

Publication date

10 August 2022

Overview

Booth could be made to be stop working under certain circuntances.

Releases

22.04 LTS 20.04 LTS

Packages

It was discovered that Booth incorrectly handled user authentication. An
attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.

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
22.04 jammy	booth – 1.0-237-gdd88847-4ubuntu2.2
20.04 focal	booth – 1.0-174-gce9f821-1ubuntu0.2

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