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USN-6845-1: Hibernate vulnerability

24 June 2024

Hibernate could be made to expose sensitive information.

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Releases

Packages

Details

It was discovered that Hibernate incorrectly handled certain inputs with
unsanitized literals. If a user or an automated system were tricked into
opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use
this issue to obtain sensitive information.

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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 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04

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