USN-6306-1: Fast DDS vulnerabilities

24 August 2023

Fast DDS could be made to crash or expose sensitive information if it received specially crafted input.

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Releases

Packages

  • fastdds - eProsima FastDDS Discovery Server and Tools

Details

It was discovered that Fast DDS incorrectly handled certain inputs.
A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of
service and information exposure. This issue only affected Ubuntu
22.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-38425)

It was discovered that Fast DDS incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash.
(CVE-2023-39534, CVE-2023-39945, CVE-2023-39946, CVE-2023-39947,
CVE-2023-39948, CVE-2023-39949)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 23.04
Ubuntu 22.04

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

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