USN-3411-2: Bazaar vulnerability
24 October 2017
Bazaar could be made run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted URL.
Releases
Packages
- bzr - easy to use distributed version control system
Details
USN-3411-1 fixed a vulnerability in Bazaar. This update
provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM.
Original advisory details:
Adam Collard discovered that Bazaar did not properly handle host names
in 'bzr+ssh://' URLs. A remote attacker could use this to construct
a bazaar repository URL that when accessed could run arbitrary code
with the privileges of the user.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 12.04
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.