libiberty vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:

* Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
* Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in libiberty.

Software Description

* libiberty - library of utility functions used by GNU programs

Details

It was discovered that libiberty incorrectly handled parsing
certain binaries. If a user or automated system were tricked into
processing a specially crafted binary, a remote attacker could use
this issue to cause libiberty to crash, resulting in a denial of
service, or possibly execute arbitrary code

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
libiberty-dev - 20170913-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
libiberty-dev - 20160215-1ubuntu0.3

To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
changes.

References

* CVE-2018-12641
* CVE-2018-12697
* CVE-2018-12698
* CVE-2018-12934
* CVE-2018-17794
* CVE-2018-17985
* CVE-2018-18483
* CVE-2018-18484
* CVE-2018-18700
* CVE-2018-18701
* CVE-2018-9138
* CVE-2019-14250
* CVE-2019-9070
* CVE-2019-9071

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