Overview
This week we welcome back Vineetha Kamath, Ubuntu Security Certifications
Manager, to discuss the recent release of FIPS modules for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
and we look at security updates for Bind, ClamAV, QEMU, the Linux kernel
This week in Ubuntu Security Updates
[USN-4365-2] Bind vulnerabilities [00:37]
2 CVEs addressed in Precise ESM (12.04 ESM), Trusty ESM (14.04 ESM)CVE-2020-8617 CVE-2020-8616 Episode 75 - https://nxnsattack.com[USN-4369-1] Linux kernel vulnerabilities [01:11]
8 CVEs addressed in Bionic (18.04 LTS), Eoan (19.10)CVE-2020-12657 CVE-2020-11668 CVE-2020-11609 CVE-2020-11608 CVE-2020-11565 CVE-2020-11494 CVE-2019-19769 CVE-2019-19377 5.3 (19.10, 18.04 LTS HWE)Episode 75 for details[USN-4370-1, USN-4370-2] ClamAV vulnerabilities [01:35]
2 CVEs addressed in Precise ESM (12.04 ESM), Trusty ESM (14.04 ESM), Xenial (16.04 LTS), Bionic (18.04 LTS), Eoan (19.10), Focal (20.04 LTS)CVE-2020-3341 CVE-2020-3327 Stack and heap buffer over-reads in the PDF and ARJ (Archived by RoberJung) file parsers -> crash -> DoS
[USN-4371-1] libvirt vulnerabilities [02:36]
2 CVEs addressed in Bionic (18.04 LTS), Eoan (19.10)CVE-2020-12430 CVE-2020-10703 Memory leak able to be triggered by local users with read-only qemuaccess when retrieving domain stats -> DoS
[USN-4372-1] QEMU vulnerabilities [03:08]
5 CVEs addressed in Xenial (16.04 LTS), Bionic (18.04 LTS), Eoan (19.10), Focal (20.04 LTS)CVE-2020-1983 CVE-2020-11869 CVE-2020-10702 CVE-2019-20382 CVE-2019-15034 UAF in libslirpInteger overflow in handling of ATI VGA emulation -> guest to host crash[USN-4373-1] Thunderbird vulnerabilities [03:44]
5 CVEs addressed in Xenial (16.04 LTS), Bionic (18.04 LTS), Eoan (19.10), Focal (20.04 LTS)CVE-2020-12397 CVE-2020-12392 CVE-2020-12395 CVE-2020-12387 CVE-2020-6831 68.8.0Goings on in Ubuntu Security Community
Joe McManus and Vineetha Kamath discuss FIPS certification for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS [04:10]
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