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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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Warning Number

Target Sector

27 October, 2020

● Medium

2020-1977

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Description:

ubuntu has released security updates to address several vulnerabilities in the following products:

  • firefox - Mozilla Open Source web browser
    • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
  • ruby-kramdown - Fast, pure-Ruby Markdown-superset converter - ruby library
    • Ubuntu 20.10
  • perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
    • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
    • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
    • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Threats:

Attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by doing the following:

  • Denial of service attack (DoS)

Best practice and Recommendations:

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

Last updated at 27 October, 2020

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