USN-5658-1 fixed vulnerabilities in DHCP. This update provides
the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM.
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that DHCP incorrectly handled option reference counting.
A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause DHCP servers to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2022-2928)
It was discovered that DHCP incorrectly handled certain memory operations.
A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause DHCP clients and
servers to consume resources, leading to a denial of service.
(CVE-2022-2929)
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It was discovered that SQLite incorrectly handled certain long string
arguments. An attacker could use this issue to cause SQLite to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
It was discovered that LibRaw incorrectly handled photo files. If a user or
automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted photo
file, a remote attacker could cause applications linked against LibRaw to
crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary
code.
Note that we will be skipping 16.14.2 since the only changes were in the bundled copy of OpenSSL, which we do not use. The relevant security patches are handled in Fedora’s openssl package.
