USN-5187-1: Glances vulnerability

Publication date

25 July 2022

Overview

Glances could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.


Packages

  • glances - Curses-based monitoring tool

Details

It was discovered that Glances incorrectly parsed untrusted XML data due to
usage of xmlrpclib. An attacker could possibly use this to perform an External
Entity (XXE) Injection and cause the host system to crash.

It was discovered that Glances incorrectly parsed untrusted XML data due to
usage of xmlrpclib. An attacker could possibly use this to perform an External
Entity (XXE) Injection and cause the host system to crash.

Update instructions

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

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

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

Ubuntu Release Package Version
20.04 LTS focal glances –  3.1.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm1  
18.04 LTS bionic glances –  2.11.1-3ubuntu0.1~esm1  
16.04 LTS xenial glances –  2.3-1ubuntu0.1~esm1  

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