Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2392-1
30th October, 2014
systemd-shim vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 14.10
Summary
A denial of service issue was fixed in systemd-shim.
Software description
- systemd-shim
– shim for systemd
Details
It was discovered that systemd-shim incorrectly shipped with a debugging
clause enabled. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a
denial of service.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
- Ubuntu 14.10:
-
systemd-shim
8-1ubuntu0.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.