USN-4860-1: Monit vulnerabilities

15 March 2021

Several security issues were fixed in Monit.

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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 potentially leak sensitive
information. (CVE-2019-11455)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

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

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