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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-43641): CUE vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2023-43641): CUE vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/09/2023
Created
10/11/2023
Added
10/10/2023
Modified
10/30/2023

Description

libcue provides an API for parsing and extracting data from CUE sheets. Versions 2.2.1 and prior are vulnerable to out-of-bounds array access. A user of the GNOME desktop environment can be exploited by downloading a cue sheet from a malicious webpage. Because the file is saved to `~/Downloads`, it is then automatically scanned by tracker-miners. And because it has a .cue filename extension, tracker-miners use libcue to parse the file. The file exploits the vulnerability in libcue to gain code execution. This issue is patched in version 2.3.0.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libcue2

References

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