USN-5004-1: RabbitMQ vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 21.04
• Ubuntu 20.10
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 18.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 16.04 ESM

Packages

• rabbitmq-server - AMQP server written in Erlang

Details

It was discovered that RabbitMQ incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This
issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-11287)

Jonathan Knudsen discovered RabbitMQ incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2021-22116)

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 21.04

• rabbitmq-server - 3.8.9-2ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 20.10

• rabbitmq-server - 3.8.5-1ubuntu0.2

Ubuntu 20.04

• rabbitmq-server - 3.8.2-0ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 18.04

• rabbitmq-server - 3.6.10-1ubuntu0.5

Ubuntu 16.04

• rabbitmq-server - 3.5.7-1ubuntu0.16.04.4+esm1
  Available with Ubuntu Pro

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

References

• CVE-2021-22116
• CVE-2019-11287