USN-3558-1: systemd vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3558-1

5th February, 2018

systemd vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in systemd.

Software description

• systemd - system and service manager

Details

Karim Hossen & Thomas Imbert and Nelson William Gamazo Sanchez
independently discovered that systemd-resolved incorrectly handled certain
DNS responses. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
systemd to temporarily stop responding, resulting in a denial of service.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-15908)

It was discovered that systemd incorrectly handled automounted volumes. A
local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications to hang,
resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2018-1049)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

systemd 229-4ubuntu21.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

systemd 204-5ubuntu20.26

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-2017-15908, CVE-2018-1049

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