USN-5720-1: Zstandard vulnerabilities

9 November 2022

Zstandard could be made to expose sensitive information

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Releases

Packages

  • libzstd - fast lossless compression algorithm

Details

It was discovered that Zstandard was not properly managing file
permissions when generating output files. A local attacker could
possibly use this issue to cause a race condition and gain
unauthorized access to sensitive data.

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Ubuntu Pro provides ten-year security coverage to 25,000+ packages in Main and Universe repositories, and it is free for up to five machines.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04

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

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