Category Archives: Advisories

USN-5739-1: MariaDB vulnerabilities

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Several security issues were discovered in MariaDB and this update
includes new upstream MariaDB versions to fix these issues.

MariaDB has been updated to 10.3.37 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and to 10.6.11
in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10.

In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes,
new features, and possibly incompatible changes.

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USN-5638-3: Expat vulnerability

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USN-5638-1 fixed a vulnerability in Expat. This update provides
the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS,
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-43680)
This update also fixes a minor regression introduced in
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

Rhodri James discovered that Expat incorrectly handled memory when
processing certain malformed XML files. An attacker could possibly
use this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code.

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