USN-5078-1

Richard Weinberger discovered that Squashfs-Tools mishandled certain malformed SQUASHFS files. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to the filesystem.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / squashfs-tools

Package

Name: squashfs-tools
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/squashfs-tools@1:4.3-6ubuntu0.18.04.4?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:4.3-6ubuntu0.18.04.4

Affected versions

1:4.*

1:4.3-4ubuntu1

1:4.3-4ubuntu2

1:4.3-6

1:4.3-6ubuntu0.18.04.1

1:4.3-6ubuntu0.18.04.2

1:4.3-6ubuntu0.18.04.3

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1:4.3-6ubuntu0.18.04.4",
            "binary_name": "squashfs-tools"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves": [
        {
            "id": "CVE-2021-41072",
            "severity": [
                {
                    "type": "CVSS_V3",
                    "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H"
                },
                {
                    "type": "Ubuntu",
                    "score": "medium"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS"
}

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / squashfs-tools