ubuntu Updates
2725Warning Date
Severity Level
Warning Number
Target Sector
9 February, 2020
● Medium
2020-891
All
Description:
ubuntu has released security updates to address a vulnerability in the following products:
- Mesa
- Ubuntu 19.10
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Pillow
- Ubuntu 19.10
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
- ReportLab
- Ubuntu 19.10
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- MariaDB
- Ubuntu 19.10
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Threats:
Attacker could exploit this vulnerability by doing the following:
- Bypass of a protection mechanism
- Denial of service attack (DoS)
- Execute arbitrary code – remotely
- Buffer overflow
Best practice and Recommendations:
The CERT team encourages users to review ubuntu security advisory and apply the necessary updates: