USN-5055-1: GNOME grilo vulnerability

30 August 2021

grilo could be made to allow MITM attacks.

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Releases

Packages

  • grilo - Framework for discovering and browsing media - GObject introspect

Details

Michael Catanzaro discovered that grilo incorrectly handled certain TLS
certificate verification. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
MITM attacks.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 21.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

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

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