USN-5389-1: Libcroco vulnerabilities
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5389-1
April 26, 2022
libcroco vulnerabilities
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 16.04 ESM
Summary:
Several security issues were fixed in Libcroco.
Software Description:
- libcroco: Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) parsing and manipulation toolkit
Details:
It was discovered that Libcroco was incorrectly accessing data structures when
reading bytes from memory, which could cause a heap buffer overflow. An attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2017-7960)
It was discovered that Libcroco was incorrectly handling invalid UTF-8 values
when processing CSS files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause
a denial of service. (CVE-2017-8834, CVE-2017-8871)
It was discovered that Libcroco was incorrectly implementing recursion in one
of its parsing functions, which could cause an infinite recursion loop and a
stack overflow due to stack consumption. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2020-12825)
Update instructions:
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:
Ubuntu 16.04 ESM:
libcroco-tools 0.6.11-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
libcroco3 0.6.11-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
References:
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5389-1
CVE-2017-7960, CVE-2017-8834, CVE-2017-8871, CVE-2020-12825
A Libcroco security update has been released for Ubuntu Linux 16.04 ESM.
