USN-4846-1: Yubico PIV Tool vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Packages

• yubico-piv-tool - Command line tool for the YubiKey NEO PIV applet

Details

It was discovered that libykpiv, a supporting library of the Yubico PIV
tool and YubiKey PIV Manager, mishandled specially crafted input. An
attacker with a custom-made, malicious USB device could potentially execute
arbitrary code on a computer running the Yubico PIV Tool or Yubikey PIV
Manager.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04

• libykpiv1 - 1.0.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  Available with Ubuntu Pro

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

References

• CVE-2018-14780
• CVE-2018-14779

Related notices

• USN-4276-1: libykpiv1, yubico-piv-tool, ykcs11, libykpiv-dev