USN-3814-1: libmspack vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 18.10
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Packages

• libmspack - library for Microsoft compression formats

Details

It was discovered libmspack incorrectly handled certain malformed CAB files.
A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libmspack to crash, resulting
in a denial of service. (CVE-2018-18584, CVE-2018-18585)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.10

• libmspack0 - 0.7-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04

• libmspack0 - 0.6-3ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 16.04

• libmspack0 - 0.5-1ubuntu0.16.04.3

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

References

• CVE-2018-18584
• CVE-2018-18585

Related notices

• USN-3814-2: clamav, clamav-freshclam, clamav-base, libclamav-dev, libclamav7, clamav-docs, clamav-milter, clamav-daemon, clamav-testfiles
• USN-3814-3: clamav