USN-1635-1: libunity-webapps vulnerability
21 November 2012
libunity-webapps could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a malicious website.
Releases
Packages
- libunity-webapps - UnityWebapps library
Details
It was discovered that libunity-webapps improperly handled certain hash
tables. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libunity-webapps
to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 12.10
After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make all
the necessary changes.