USN-6292-1: Ceph vulnerability

16 August 2023

Ceph could be made to run programs as an administrator.

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It was discovered that Ceph incorrectly handled crash dumps. A local
attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges to root.

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

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

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