Monit vulnerabilities

8 May 2019

Monit vulnerabilities

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

• Ubuntu 19.04
• Ubuntu 18.10

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Monit

Software Description

• monit - utility for monitoring and managing daemons or similar programs

Details

Zack Flack discovered that Monit incorrectly handled certain input. A remote authenticated user could exploit this to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. (CVE-2019-11454)

Zack Flack discovered a buffer overread when Monit decoded certain crafted URLs. An attacker could exploit this to leak potentially sensitive information. (CVE-2019-11455)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 19.04

monit - 1:5.25.2-3ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.10

monit - 1:5.25.2-1ubuntu0.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

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

References

• CVE-2019-11454
• CVE-2019-11455