USN-6584-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2021-20314)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2024-01-15 17:17 – Updated: 2026-06-25 10:46 – Source website
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Summary
libspf2 vulnerabilities
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Philipp Jeitner and Haya Shulman discovered that Libspf2 incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-20314)

It was discovered that Libspf2 incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-33912, CVE-2021-33913)

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