DSA-5260-1 lava -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-5260-1 lava -- security update

Date Reported:

23 Oct 2022

Affected Packages:

lava

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 1021737.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2022-42902.

More information:

Igor Ponomarev discovered that LAVA, a continuous integration system for deploying operating systems onto physical and virtual hardware for running tests, used exec() on input passed to the server component.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), this problem has been fixed in version 2020.12-5+deb11u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your lava packages.

For the detailed security status of lava please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/lava