14/10/2024

USN-7040-2: ConfigObj vulnerability

First published: Mon Oct 14 2024(Updated: )

USN-7040-1 fixed a vulnerability in ConfigObj. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that ConfigObj contains regex that is susceptible to catastrophic backtracking. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a regular expression denial of service.

Affected Software	Affected Version	How to fix
All of
ubuntu/python-configobj	<4.7.2+ds-5ubuntu0.1~esm1	4.7.2+ds-5ubuntu0.1~esm1
Ubuntu Ubuntu	=14.04

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(Contains the following vulnerabilities)

CVE-2023-26112

collector/usn
source/Ubuntu
anchor-related/USN-7040-1
agent/software-canonical-lookup
agent/last-modified-date
agent/references
agent/softwarecombine
agent/description
agent/first-publish-date
agent/severity
agent/type
agent/event
agent/title
agent/tags
agent/trending
package-manager/ubuntu
vendor/ubuntu
canonical/ubuntu ubuntu
version/ubuntu ubuntu/14.04

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