USN-4085-1: Sigil vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 19.04
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Packages

• sigil - multi-platform ebook editor

Details

Mike Salvatore discovered that Sigil mishandled certain malformed EPUB
files. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to
the filesystem.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 19.04

• sigil - 0.9.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1
• sigil-data - 0.9.13+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04

• sigil - 0.9.9+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
• sigil-data - 0.9.9+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Ubuntu 16.04

• sigil - 0.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu1+esm1
• sigil-data - 0.9.5+dfsg-0ubuntu1+esm1

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

References

• CVE-2019-14452