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ubuntu-security-announce Digest, Vol 118, Issue 15

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Today's Topics:

1. [USN-2300-1] LZO vulnerability (Marc Deslauriers)
2. [USN-2301-1] Jinja2 vulnerabilities (Marc Deslauriers)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:47:59 -0400
From: Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@canonical.com>
To: ubuntu-security-announce@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: [USN-2300-1] LZO vulnerability
Message-ID: <53D10E8F.1010901@canonical.com>
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2300-1
July 24, 2014

lzo2 vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

LZO could be made to crash or run programs if it processed specially
crafted data.

Software Description:
- lzo2: data compression library

Details:

Don A. Bailey discovered that LZO incorrectly handled certain input data.
An attacker could use this issue to cause LZO to crash, resulting in a
denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
liblzo2-2 2.06-1.2ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
liblzo2-2 2.06-1ubuntu0.1

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2300-1
CVE-2014-4607

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lzo2/2.06-1.2ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lzo2/2.06-1ubuntu0.1


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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:48:24 -0400
From: Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@canonical.com>
To: ubuntu-security-announce@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: [USN-2301-1] Jinja2 vulnerabilities
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2301-1
July 24, 2014

jinja2 vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

A security issue was fixed in Jinja2.

Software Description:
- jinja2: small but fast and easy to use stand-alone template engine

Details:

It was discovered that Jinja2 incorrectly handled temporary cache files and
directories. A local attacker could use this issue to possibly gain
privileges.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
python-jinja2 2.6-1ubuntu0.1
python3-jinja2 2.6-1ubuntu0.1

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

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2301-1
CVE-2014-0012, CVE-2014-1402

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jinja2/2.6-1ubuntu0.1


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