USN-5820-1: exuberant-ctags vulnerability
24 January 2023
Exuberant ctags could be make to perform arbitary command execution if run with maliciously crafted user input
Releases
Packages
- exuberant-ctags - build tag file indexes of source code definitions
Details
Lorenz Hipp discovered a flaw in exuberant-ctags handling of the tag
filename command-line argument. A crafted tag filename specified
in the command line or in the configuration file could result in
arbitrary command execution.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 22.10
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu 16.04
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exuberant-ctags
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1:5.9~svn20110310-11ubuntu0.1~esm1
Available with Ubuntu Pro
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.