bsdiff vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
* Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Summary
bsdiff could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a specially crafted file.
Software Description
* bsdiff - generate/apply a patch between two binary files
Details
It was discovered that bsdiff mishandled certain input. If a user
were tricked into opening a malicious file, an attacker could
cause bsdiff to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the
following package versions:
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
bsdiff - 4.3-15+deb8u1build0.16.04.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
changes.
References
* CVE-2014-9862
--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A45 (Linux/64)
* Origin: BZ&BZ BBS (21:4/110)