USN-5610-1: rust-regex vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Packages

• rust-regex - Regular expressions for Rust

Details

Addison Crump discovered that rust-regex did not properly limit
the complexity of the regular expressions (regex) it parses.
An 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 versions:

Ubuntu 22.04

• librust-regex-dev - 1.5.4-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 20.04

• librust-regex-dev - 1.2.1-3ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2022-24713

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