USN-5889-1: ZoneMinder vulnerabilities

27 February 2023

Several security issues were fixed in ZoneMinder.

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  • zoneminder - video camera security and surveillance solution

Details

It was discovered that ZoneMinder was not properly sanitizing URL
parameters for certain views. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. This issue was only fixed in
Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-6777)

It was discovered that ZoneMinder was not properly sanitizing stored user
input later printed to the user in certain views. An attacker could
possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack.
This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-6990,
CVE-2019-6992)

It was discovered that ZoneMinder was not properly limiting data size and
not properly performing bound checks when processing username and password
data, which could lead to a stack buffer overflow. An attacker could
possibly use this issue to bypass authentication, cause a denial of
service or execute arbitrary code. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu
16.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-6991)

It was discovered that ZoneMinder was not properly defining and filtering
data that was appended to the webroot URL of a view. An attacker could
possibly use this issue to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 20.04 ESM.
(CVE-2019-7325, CVE-2019-7329)

It was discovered that ZoneMinder was not properly sanitizing stored user
input later printed to the user in certain views. An attacker could
possibly use this issue to perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack.
This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-7326)

It was discovered that ZoneMinder was not properly sanitizing URL
parameters for certain views. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. This issue was only fixed in
Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-7327, CVE-2019-7328, CVE-2019-7330,
CVE-2019-7332)

It was discovered that ZoneMinder was not properly sanitizing user input
in the monitor editing view. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
perform a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack. This issue was only fixed in
Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2019-7331)

It was discovered that ZoneMinder was not properly sanitizing data related
to file paths in a system. An attacker could possibly use this issue to
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-29806)

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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
Ubuntu 16.04

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

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