USN-5744-1: libICE vulnerability

28 November 2022

Weak session cookies generated using libICE could allow sensitive information to be exposed.

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Releases

Packages

  • libice - X11 Inter-Client Exchange library (development headers)

Details

It was discovered that libICE was using a weak mechanism to generate the
session cookies. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to perform
a privilege escalation attack.

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

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

References