Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Common Problems 119131

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS CIFS mount authentication fails after password rotation

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 3 April 2021 Affected versions: 14.04 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & Cross-Refs […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — pcre3 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — pcre3 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 3 April 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5425-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-20838 CVE-2020-14155 CVE-2014-9769 CVE-2015-2325 CVE-2015-2326 CVE-2015-2327 CVE-2015-2328 CVE-2015-3210  +12 more Upstream summary: Yunho Kim discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled memory when handling certain regular expressions. An attacker […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — underscore — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — underscore — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 2 April 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4913-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-23358 Upstream summary: It was discovered that Underscore incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary code. Table of contents Symptom […]

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Common Problems 119037

MySQL Won’t Start Due to InnoDB Log Mismatch on Ubuntu 14.04

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 1 April 2021 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & Cross-Refs References & Further […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — musl — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — musl — multiple vulnerabilities (7 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 29 March 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5990-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2019-14697 CVE-2020-28928 CVE-2014-3484 CVE-2015-1817 CVE-2016-8859 CVE-2017-15650 CVE-2018-1000001 Upstream summary: It was discovered that musl did not handle certain i386 math functions properly. An attacker could use this […]

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Common Problems 118920

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Stuck at GRUB Prompt After Kernel Cleanup

🟠 High   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 28 March 2021 Affected versions: 14.04 LTS 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — dovecot — multiple vulnerabilities (11 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — dovecot — multiple vulnerabilities (11 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 28 March 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4674-2 Related CVEs: CVE-2020-25275 CVE-2020-12100 CVE-2020-12673 CVE-2020-12674 CVE-2019-11500 CVE-2019-7524 CVE-2019-3814 CVE-2017-14461  +3 more Upstream summary: USN-4674-1 fixed a vulnerability in Dovecot. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — fail2ban — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — fail2ban — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 22 March 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5232-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-32749 Upstream summary: Jakub Żoczek discovered that certain Fail2ban actions handled whois responses in an insecure way. If Fail2ban was configured to use certain mail actions like […]

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Ubuntu 14.04 — libnet-cidr-perl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Ubuntu 14.04

Ubuntu 14.04 — libnet-cidr-perl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 17 March 2021 Affected versions: Ubuntu 14.04 (trusty) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Ubuntu Security Notice USN-8110-1 Related CVEs: CVE-2021-4456 Upstream summary: Dave Rolsky discovered that Net-CIDR did not properly sanitize IP addresses. An attacker could possibly use this to bypass IP-based restrictions. Table of contents […]

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Common Problems 119102

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS unattended-upgrades repeatedly fails

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 5–30 min  Last verified: 7 March 2021 Affected versions: 14.04 LTS 📖 ~1 min read Table of contents Symptom & Impact Environment & Reproduction Root Cause Analysis Quick Triage Step-by-Step Diagnosis Solution – Primary Fix Solution – Alternative Approaches Verification & Acceptance Criteria Rollback Plan Prevention & Hardening Related Errors & […]

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