openconnect vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
* Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Summary
OpenConnect could be made to crash if it received specially
crafted input.
Software Description
* openconnect - An SSL VPN client
Details
It was discovered that OpenConnect has a buffer overflow when a
malicious server uses HTTP chunked encoding with crafted chunk
sizes. An attacker could use it to provoke a denial of service
(crash).
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the
following package versions:
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
libopenconnect5 - 7.08-3ubuntu0.18.04.2
openconnect - 7.08-3ubuntu0.18.04.2
To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
changes.
References
* CVE-2019-16239
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* Origin: BZ&BZ BBS (21:4/110)