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Classification
These posts contain security alerts, including digital loopholes, electronic attacks, technical updates, and they are classified base on the level of severity.

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Warning Date

Severity Level

Warning Number

Target Sector

16 December, 2019

● Medium

2019-729

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Description:

Ubuntu has released update to address multiple vulnerabilities in the following versions:

  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 12.04 ESM
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  • Ubuntu 19.04
  • Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
  • Ubuntu 19.10

Threats:

An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by doing the following:

  • Denial of service attack (DoS)
  • Execute arbitrary code remotely
  • Bypass security restrictions
  • Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks
  • Obtain sensitive information

Best practice and Recommendations

The CERT team encourages to update and check the affected versions according to the link below:

https://usn.ubuntu.com/

Last updated at 5 January, 2020

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