Fraudulent security certificates could allow sensitive information to be exposed when accessing the Internet.
It was discovered that glib-networking skipped hostname certificate verification if the application failed to specify the server identity. A remote attacker could use this to perform a person-in-the-middle attack and expose sensitive information.
29 June 2020
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Fraudulent security certificates could allow sensitive information to be exposed when accessing the Internet.
It was discovered that glib-networking skipped hostname certificate verification if the application failed to specify the server identity. A remote attacker could use this to perform a person-in-the-middle attack and expose sensitive information.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
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.