USN-3971-1: Monit vulnerabilities
8 May 2019
Several security issues were fixed in Monit
Releases
Packages
- monit - utility for monitoring and managing daemons or similar programs
Details
Zack Flack discovered that Monit incorrectly handled certain input. A remote
authenticated user could exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS)
attacks. (CVE-2019-11454)
Zack Flack discovered a buffer overread when Monit decoded certain crafted URLs.
An attacker could exploit this to leak potentially sensitive information.
(CVE-2019-11455)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 19.04
Ubuntu 18.10
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.