USN-813-1: apr vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 9.04
• Ubuntu 8.10
• Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

• apr -

Details

Matt Lewis discovered that apr did not properly sanitize its input when
allocating memory. If an application using apr processed crafted input, a
remote attacker could cause a denial of service or potentially execute
arbitrary code as the user invoking the application.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 9.04

• libapr1 - 1.2.12-5ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 8.10

• libapr1 - 1.2.12-4ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 8.04

• libapr1 - 1.2.11-1ubuntu0.1

After a standard system upgrade you need to restart any applications using
apr, such as Subversion and Apache, to effect the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2009-2412

Related notices

• USN-813-3: apr-util, libaprutil1
• USN-813-2: libapr0, apache2