updates requiring keyboard input

[Tommy Trussell]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> Here's an example of how the updater is "hanging" while it waits for
> user input. I just cut-and-pasted this chunk out of the "Details"
> window; there was a colon prompt at the bottom, and when I pressed "q"
> the update proceeded normally.
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> [...]
> (
> http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/libx/libxfont/libxfont_1.4.7-1ubuntu0.2/changelog)
> [13.1 kB]
> libxfont (1:1.4.7-1ubuntu0.2) trusty-security; urgency=medium
>
>   * SECURITY UPDATE: arbitrary code exection via invalid property count
>     - debian/patches/CVE-2015-1802.patch: check for integer overflow in
>       src/bitmap/bdfread.c.
>     - CVE-2015-1802
>   * SECURITY UPDATE: arbitrary code execution via bitmap data parse
> failure
>     - debian/patches/CVE-2015-1803.patch: bail out if bitmap can't be
> read
>       in src/bitmap/bdfread.c.
>     - CVE-2015-1803
>   * SECURITY UPDATE: arbitrary code execution via invalid metrics
>     - debian/patches/CVE-2015-1804.patch: ensure metrics fit in struct
> in
>       src/bitmap/bdfread.c.
>     - CVE-2015-1804
>   * Backport some commits from git to solve ftbfs with newer fontsproto:
>     - debian/patches/ftbfs-new-fontsproto.patch
>     - debian/patches/ftbfs-new-fontsproto-2.patch
>
>  -- Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers at ubuntu.com>  Wed, 18 Mar 2015
> 07:32:09 -0400
> :
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
>
> Not a big problem, but an irritant. Are others seeing this?
>
>

No, that update came through and installed just fine on my systems (running
"straight" Ubuntu 14.04 with Unity). I didn't have to interact with the
updater at all, except to tell it to install all of them.

What "flavor" Ubuntu are you using?

Are you using update-manager (aka "Software Updater") or a different
software update tool?
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