USN-4722-1: ReadyMedia (MiniDLNA) vulnerabilities

Published Feb 4, 2021
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Updated

It was discovered that ReadyMedia (MiniDLNA) allowed subscription requests with a delivery URL on a different network segment than the fully qualified event- subscription URL. An attacker could use this to hijack smart devices and cause denial of service attacks. (CVE-2020-12695) It was discovered that ReadyMedia (MiniDLNA) allowed remote code execution. A remote attacker could send a malicious UPnP HTTP request to the service using HTTP chunked encoding and cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-28926)

Affected Software

8 affected componentsFixes available
All of the following
ubuntu/minidlna<1.2.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1
1.2.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu Ubuntu=20.10
All of the following
ubuntu/minidlna<1.2.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.20.04.1
1.2.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.20.04.1
Ubuntu Ubuntu=20.04
All of the following
ubuntu/minidlna<1.2.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.18.04.1
1.2.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.18.04.1
Ubuntu Ubuntu=18.04
All of the following
ubuntu/minidlna<1.1.5+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1
1.1.5+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1
Ubuntu Ubuntu=16.04

Event History

Feb 4, 2021
Advisory Published
via Ubuntu·12:00 AM

Child vulnerabilities

Contains the following vulnerabilities.

Frequently Asked Questions

1

What is the vulnerability ID for this advisory?

CVE-2020-12695

2

What is the affected software?

ReadyMedia (MiniDLNA) version 1.2.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1

3

What is the severity of this vulnerability?

The severity of this vulnerability is not specified in the advisory.

4

How can an attacker exploit this vulnerability?

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by hijacking smart devices and causing denial of service attacks.

5

How can I fix this vulnerability?

To fix this vulnerability, update ReadyMedia (MiniDLNA) to version 1.2.1+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1 or later.

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