Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5928-1

Ubuntu Security Notice 5928-1 - It was discovered that systemd did not properly validate the time and accuracy values provided to the format_timespan function. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a buffer overrun, leading to a denial of service attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. It was discovered that systemd did not properly manage the fs.suid_dumpable kernel configurations. A local attacker could …

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