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musl vulnerabilities

Published Mar 31, 2023 · Updated Jun 29, 2026

Summary

It was discovered that musl did not handle certain i386 math functions
properly. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a denial of
service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only
affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
(CVE-2019-14697)

It was discovered that musl did not handle wide-character conversion
properly. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability to cause resource
consumption (infinite loop), denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04
ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-28928)

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · Pro 14.04 LTS Pro:14.04:LTS musl 0.9.15-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
Ubuntu · Pro 16.04 LTS Pro:16.04:LTS musl 1.1.9-1ubuntu0.1~esm3
Ubuntu · Pro 18.04 LTS Pro:18.04:LTS musl 1.1.19-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
Ubuntu · Pro 20.04 LTS Pro:20.04:LTS musl 1.1.24-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-14697
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-28928