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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6958-1

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6958-1
Posted Aug 14, 2024
Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 6958-1 - It was discovered that Libcroco was incorrectly accessing data structures when reading bytes from memory, which could cause a heap buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. It was discovered that Libcroco was incorrectly handling invalid UTF-8 values when processing CSS files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

tags | advisory, denial of service, overflow
systems | linux, ubuntu
advisories | CVE-2017-7960, CVE-2020-12825
SHA-256 | 6da9aa989234890bc72054de4b4175865eef80ed6546752d844c5b7c2a1d3e03

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6958-1

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6958-1
August 13, 2024

libcroco vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary:

Several security issues were fixed in Libcroco.

Software Description:
- libcroco: Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) parsing and manipulation toolkit

Details:

It was discovered that Libcroco was incorrectly accessing data structures
when reading bytes from memory, which could cause a heap buffer overflow.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-7960)

It was discovered that Libcroco was incorrectly handling invalid UTF-8
values when processing CSS files. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-8834, CVE-2017-8871)

It was discovered that Libcroco was incorrectly implementing recursion in
one of its parsing functions, which could cause an infinite recursion
loop and a stack overflow due to stack consumption. An attacker could
possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-12825)

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
libcroco-tools 0.6.13-1ubuntu0.1
libcroco3 0.6.13-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
libcroco-tools 0.6.12-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
Available with Ubuntu Pro
libcroco3 0.6.12-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
libcroco-tools 0.6.8-2ubuntu1+esm1
Available with Ubuntu Pro
libcroco3 0.6.8-2ubuntu1+esm1
Available with Ubuntu Pro

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6958-1
CVE-2017-7960, CVE-2017-8834, CVE-2017-8871, CVE-2020-12825

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libcroco/0.6.13-1ubuntu0.1

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