USN-4271-1: Mesa vulnerability

6 February 2020

Mesa could be made to expose sensitive information.

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Releases

Packages

  • mesa - free implementation of the EGL API

Details

Tim Brown discovered that Mesa incorrectly handled shared memory
permissions. A local attacker could use this issue to obtain and possibly
alter sensitive information belonging to another user.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 19.10
Ubuntu 18.04

After a standard system update you need to restart your session to make
all the necessary changes.

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