USN-6958-1: Libcroco vulnerabilities
First published: Tue Aug 13 2024(Updated: )
It was discovered that Libcroco was incorrectly accessing data structures when reading bytes from memory, which could cause a heap buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-7960) It was discovered that Libcroco was incorrectly handling invalid UTF-8 values when processing CSS files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-8834, CVE-2017-8871) It was discovered that Libcroco was incorrectly implementing recursion in one of its parsing functions, which could cause an infinite recursion loop and a stack overflow due to stack consumption. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-12825)
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/libcroco-tools | <0.6.13-1ubuntu0.1 | 0.6.13-1ubuntu0.1 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =20.04 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/libcroco3 | <0.6.13-1ubuntu0.1 | 0.6.13-1ubuntu0.1 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =20.04 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/libcroco-tools | <0.6.12-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 | 0.6.12-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =18.04 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/libcroco3 | <0.6.12-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 | 0.6.12-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =18.04 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/libcroco-tools | <0.6.8-2ubuntu1+esm1 | 0.6.8-2ubuntu1+esm1 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =14.04 | |
| All of | ||
| ubuntu/libcroco3 | <0.6.8-2ubuntu1+esm1 | 0.6.8-2ubuntu1+esm1 |
| Ubuntu Ubuntu | =14.04 |
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Reference Links
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8834
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-12825
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7960
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8871
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5389-1
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libcroco/0.6.13-1ubuntu0.1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6958-1 (Advisory)
Child vulnerabilities
(Contains the following vulnerabilities)
- collector/usn
- source/Ubuntu
- anchor-related/USN-5389-1
- agent/software-canonical-lookup
- agent/severity
- agent/title
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/references
- agent/weakness
- agent/type
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/event
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/description
- agent/tags
- agent/trending
- package-manager/ubuntu
- vendor/ubuntu
- canonical/ubuntu ubuntu
- version/ubuntu ubuntu/20.04
- version/ubuntu ubuntu/18.04
- version/ubuntu ubuntu/14.04