ubuntu Updates
1718Warning Date
Severity Level
Warning Number
Target Sector
25 February, 2021
● High
2021-2525
All
Description:
ubuntu has released security updates to address several vulnerabilities in the following products:
- Dnsmasq regression
- Ubuntu 20.10
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- xterm
- Ubuntu 20.10
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- GNU Screen
- Ubuntu 20.10
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
Threats:
Attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by doing the following:
- Denial of service attack (DoS) -remotely
Best practice and Recommendations:
The CERT team encourages users to review ubuntu security advisory and apply the necessary updates: