USN-2392-1: systemd-shim vulnerability

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2392-1

30th October, 2014

systemd-shim vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 14.10

Summary

A denial of service issue was fixed in systemd-shim.

Software description

• systemd-shim - shim for systemd

Details

It was discovered that systemd-shim incorrectly shipped with a debugging

clause enabled. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a

denial of service.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 14.10:

systemd-shim 8-1ubuntu0.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://bit.ly/1aJDvTw.

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

References

CVE-2014-8399

from Ubuntu Security Notices http://bit.ly/13kgmtk