Public bug reported:
The auto-updater was asking for permission to update Bash. The Changes
message was as follows:
Changes for bash versions:
Installed version: 4.3-7ubuntu1.3
Available version: 4.3-7ubuntu1.4
Version 4.3-7ubuntu1.4:
* SECURITY UPDATE: out-of-bounds memory access
- debian/patches/CVE-2014-718x.diff: guard against overflow and fix
off-by-one in parse.y and y.tab.c.
- CVE-2014-7186
- CVE-2014-7187
* SECURITY IMPROVEMENT: use prefixes and suffixes for function exports
- debian/patches/variables-affix.diff: add prefixes and suffixes in
variables.c.
Each CVE link went to an URL such as
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2014-7186. This is an error page
which states that the CVE_ID is invalid. I would have expected to see a bug
description of some sort.
Manually changing the URL to
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7186 changed the error
message, which now claims the ID is valid but unrecognised. I assume this is
for the reason suggested, that the problem has not been uploaded, and that this
is now the correct URL.
Does the code that generates the links need to include CVE- in the URLs?
I assume that this will apply to all updates, not just Bash, but I can't
yet verify this.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.196.12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-36.63-generic 3.13.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.4
Aptdaemon:
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Sep 27 10:40:34 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
GsettingsChanges:
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'1000'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'1215'
b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1411810242'
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-07-31 (57 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr - Release amd64 (20140417)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python3.4
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: update-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: update-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty
** Description changed:
The auto-updater was asking for permission to update Bash. The Changes
message was as follows:
Changes for bash versions:
Installed version: 4.3-7ubuntu1.3
Available version: 4.3-7ubuntu1.4
Version 4.3-7ubuntu1.4:
- * SECURITY UPDATE: out-of-bounds memory access
- - debian/patches/CVE-2014-718x.diff: guard against overflow and fix
- off-by-one in parse.y and y.tab.c.
- - CVE-2014-7186
- - CVE-2014-7187
- * SECURITY IMPROVEMENT: use prefixes and suffixes for function exports
- - debian/patches/variables-affix.diff: add prefixes and suffixes in
- variables.c.
+ * SECURITY UPDATE: out-of-bounds memory access
+ - debian/patches/CVE-2014-718x.diff: guard against overflow and fix
+ off-by-one in parse.y and y.tab.c.
+ - CVE-2014-7186
+ - CVE-2014-7187
+ * SECURITY IMPROVEMENT: use prefixes and suffixes for function exports
+ - debian/patches/variables-affix.diff: add prefixes and suffixes in
+ variables.c.
Each CVE link went to an URL such as
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2014-7186. This is an error page
which states that the CVE_ID is invalid. I would have expected to see a bug
description of some sort.
- Manually changing the URL to
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7186 changed the error
message, which now claims the ID is valid but unrecognised. (I assume this is
for the reason suggested, that the problem has not been uploaded).
+ Manually changing the URL to
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7186 changed the error
message, which now claims the ID is valid but unrecognised. I assume this is
for the reason suggested, that the problem has not been uploaded, and that this
is now the correct URL.
+ Does the code that generates the links need to include CVE- in the URLs?
I assume that this will apply to all updates, not just Bash, but I can't
yet verify this.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: update-manager 1:0.196.12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-36.63-generic 3.13.11.6
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.4
Aptdaemon:
-
+
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Sat Sep 27 10:40:34 2014
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
GsettingsChanges:
- b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'show-details' b'true'
- b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-height' b'1000'
- b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'first-run' b'false'
- b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'window-width' b'1215'
- b'com.ubuntu.update-manager' b'launch-time' b'1411810242'
+ b'com.ubuntu.update-manager'
