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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

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Target Sector

17 December, 2020

● Medium

2020-2217

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Description:

ubuntu has released a security update to address several vulnerabilities in the following versions:

  • unzip - De-archiver for .zip files
    • Ubuntu 18.04
    • Ubuntu 16.04
    • Ubuntu 14.04

Threats:

Attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by doing the following:

  • Denial of service attack (DoS)
  • Execute arbitrary code
  • Buffer overflow

Best practice and Recommendations:

The CERT team encourages users to review ubuntu security advisory and apply the necessary updates:

Last updated at 17 December, 2020

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