Ubuntu Updates
2973Warning Date
Severity Level
Warning Number
Target Sector
16 December, 2019
● Medium
2019-729
All
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: