Exploit/Advisories

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5821-1
January 24, 2023

wheel vulnerability
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A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 22.10
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 14.04 ESM

Summary:

wheel could be made to crash if it received specially crafted
input.

Software Description:
- wheel: built-package format for Python

Details:

Sebastian Chnelik discovered that wheel incorrectly handled
certain file names when validated against a regex expression.
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 22.10:
python3-wheel 0.37.1-2ubuntu0.22.10.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
python3-wheel 0.37.1-2ubuntu0.22.04.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
python3-wheel 0.34.2-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
python-wheel 0.30.0-0.2ubuntu0.1
python3-wheel 0.30.0-0.2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.04 ESM:
python-wheel 0.24.0-1~ubuntu1.1+esm1
python3-wheel 0.24.0-1~ubuntu1.1+esm1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
If installed, python-pip and python3-pip will also need to be updated.

References:
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5821-1
CVE-2022-40898

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wheel/0.37.1-2ubuntu0.22.10.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wheel/0.37.1-2ubuntu0.22.04.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wheel/0.34.2-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wheel/0.30.0-0.2ubuntu0.1

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