USN-5055-1: GNOME grilo vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 21.04
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Packages

• grilo - Framework for discovering and browsing media - GObject introspect

Details

Michael Catanzaro discovered that grilo incorrectly handled certain TLS
certificate verification. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
MITM attacks.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 21.04

• libgrilo-0.3-0 - 0.3.13-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 20.04

• libgrilo-0.3-0 - 0.3.12-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04

• libgrilo-0.3-0 - 0.3.4-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04

• libgrilo-0.2-1 - 0.2.15-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  Available with Ubuntu Pro

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

References

• CVE-2021-39365