USN-5056-1: APR vulnerability

30 August 2021

APR could be made to expose sensitive information if it received a specially crafted input.

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Releases

Packages

  • apr - Apache Portable Runtime Library

Details

It was discovered that APR incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 21.04
Ubuntu 16.04
Ubuntu 14.04

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

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