USN-5838-1: AdvanceCOMP vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 22.10
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Packages

• advancecomp - collection of recompression utilities

Details

It was discovered that AdvanceCOMP did not properly manage memory while
performing read operations on MNG file. If a user were tricked into opening
a specially crafted MNG file, a remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause AdvanceCOMP to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2022-35014, CVE-2022-35017, CVE-2022-35018, CVE-2022-35019,
CVE-2022-35020)

It was discovered that AdvanceCOMP did not properly manage memory while
performing read operations on ZIP file. If a user were tricked into opening
a specially crafted ZIP file, a remote attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause AdvanceCOMP to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
(CVE-2022-35015, CVE-2022-35016)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 22.10

• advancecomp - 2.3-1ubuntu0.22.10.1

Ubuntu 22.04

• advancecomp - 2.1-2.1ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 20.04

• advancecomp - 2.1-2.1ubuntu0.20.04.1

Ubuntu 18.04

• advancecomp - 2.1-1ubuntu0.18.04.3

Ubuntu 16.04

• advancecomp - 1.20-1ubuntu0.2+esm2
  Available with Ubuntu Pro

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

References

• CVE-2022-35016
• CVE-2022-35018
• CVE-2022-35015
• CVE-2022-35014
• CVE-2022-35019
• CVE-2022-35020
• CVE-2022-35017