28/5/2020

USN-4359-2: APT vulnerability

First published: Thu May 28 2020(Updated: )

USN-4359-1 fixed a vulnerability in APT. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM and 14.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that APT incorrectly handled certain filenames during package installation. If an attacker could provide a specially crafted package to be installed by the system administrator, this could cause APT to crash.

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
All of
ubuntu/apt	<1.0.1ubuntu2.24+esm1	1.0.1ubuntu2.24+esm1
	=14.04
All of
ubuntu/apt	<0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.29	0.8.16~exp12ubuntu10.29
	=12.04

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CVE-2020-3810

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