[USN-4214-1] RabbitMQ vulnerability

[Leonidas S. Barbosa]

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4214-1
December 05, 2019

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

- Ubuntu 19.10
- Ubuntu 19.04
- Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Summary:

RabbitMQ could be made to execute arbitrary code if it received
a specially crafted input.

Software Description:
- librabbitmq: Command-line utilities for interacting with AMQP servers

Details:

It was discovered that RabbitMQ incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 19.10:
  amqp-tools                      0.9.0-0.2ubuntu0.19.10.1
  librabbitmq4                    0.9.0-0.2ubuntu0.19.10.1

Ubuntu 19.04:
  amqp-tools                      0.9.0-0.2ubuntu0.19.04.1
  librabbitmq4                    0.9.0-0.2ubuntu0.19.04.1

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:
  amqp-tools                      0.4.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
  librabbitmq1                    0.4.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

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

References:
  https://usn.ubuntu.com/4214-1
  CVE-2019-18609

Package Information:
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/librabbitmq/0.9.0-0.2ubuntu0.19.10.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/librabbitmq/0.9.0-0.2ubuntu0.19.04.1
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