USN-7141-1: oFono vulnerabilities

9 December 2024

Several security issues were fixed in oFono.

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Releases

Packages

  • ofono - Mobile telephony stack

Details

It was discovered that oFono incorrectly handled decoding SMS messages
leading to a stack overflow. A remote attacker could potentially use
this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2023-2794, CVE-2023-4233, CVE-2023-4234)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 24.10
Ubuntu 24.04
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
  • ofono - 1.17.bzr6912+16.04.20160314.3-0ubuntu1+esm1
    Available with Ubuntu Pro

After a standard system update you need to restart oFono to make
all the necessary changes.

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