USN-4587-1: iTALC vulnerabilities
20 October 2020
Several security issues were fixed in iTALC.
Releases
Packages
- italc - didact tool which allows teachers to view and control computer labs
Details
Nicolas Ruff discovered that iTALC had buffer overflows, divide-by-zero errors
and didn't check malloc return values. A remote attacker could use these issues
to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2014-6051, CVE-2014-6052, CVE-2014-6053, CVE-2014-6054, CVE-2014-6055)
Josef Gajdusek discovered that iTALC had heap-based buffer overflow
vulnerabilities. A remote attacker could used these issues to cause a denial of
service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-9941, CVE-2016-9942)
It was discovered that iTALC had an out-of-bounds write, multiple heap
out-of-bounds writes, an infinite loop, improper initializations, and null
pointer vulnerabilities. A remote attacker could used these issues to cause a
denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-15127,
CVE-2018-20019, CVE-2018-20020, CVE-2018-20021, CVE-2018-20022, CVE-2018-20023,
CVE-2018-20024, CVE-2018-20748, CVE-2018-20749, CVE-2018-20750, CVE-2018-7225,
CVE-2019-15681)
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 16.04
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italc-client
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1:2.0.2+dfsg1-4ubuntu0.1
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italc-master
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1:2.0.2+dfsg1-4ubuntu0.1
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libitalccore
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1:2.0.2+dfsg1-4ubuntu0.1
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.