USN-5257-2: ldns vulnerabilities

4 October 2022

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

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Releases

Packages

  • ldns - ldns library for DNS programming

Details

USN-5257-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in ldns. This update provides
the corresponding update for Ubuntu 20.04 ESM and Ubuntu 22.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that ldns incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information.
(CVE-2020-19860, CVE-2020-19861)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04

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

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