Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2371-1
8th October, 2014
exuberant-ctags vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its
derivatives:
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Summary
Exuberant Ctags could be made to consume resources.
Software description
- exuberant-ctags
– build tag file indexes of source code definitions
Details
It was discovered that Exuberant Ctags incorrectly handled certain minified
js files. An attacker could use this issue to possibly cause Exuberant
Ctags to consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package version:
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
-
exuberant-ctags
1:5.9~svn20110310-7ubuntu0.1
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
-
exuberant-ctags
1:5.9~svn20110310-3ubuntu0.1
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.