Ubuntu Alert
2666Warning Date
Severity Level
Warning Number
Target Sector
5 June, 2022
● High
2022-4914
All
Description:
Ubuntu has released security updates to address several vulnerabilities in the following products:
- cifs-utils
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 21.10
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Vim
- Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
- kernel Live
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
Threats:
An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by doing the following:
- Denial of service attack (DoS)
- Execute arbitrary code
Best practice and Recommendations:
The CERT team encourages users to review Ubuntu security advisory and apply the necessary updates: