USN-5078-3 (UBUNTU-CVE-2021-41072)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2021-10-13 00:59 – Updated: 2026-02-10 04:42 – Source website
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Summary
squashfs-tools vulnerability
Details

USN-5078-1 fixed a vulnerability in Squashfs-Tools. That update was incomplete and could still result in Squashfs-Tools mishandling certain malformed SQUASHFS files. This update fixes the problem.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

Richard Weinberger discovered that Squashfs-Tools mishandled certain malformed SQUASHFS files. An attacker could use this vulnerability to write arbitrary files to the filesystem.

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