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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-7353-1
March 17, 2025

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

- Ubuntu 24.10
- Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Summary:

PlantUML could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a specially crafted UML file.

Software Description:
- plantuml: text-to-UML converter

Details:

Tobias S. Fink discovered that PlantUML was susceptible to cross-site
scripting attacks (XSS) in instances where SVG images were rendered.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PlantUML to crash,
resulting in a denial of service, or the execution of arbitrary code.

Update instructions:

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

Ubuntu 24.10
  plantuml                        1:1.2020.2+ds-5ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  plantuml                        1:1.2020.2+ds-3ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  plantuml                        1:1.2020.2+ds-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  plantuml                        1:1.2018.13+ds-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  plantuml                        1:1.2017.15-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
  plantuml                        8024-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
                                  Available with Ubuntu Pro

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

References:
  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7353-1
  CVE-2022-1231

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plantuml/1:1.2020.2+ds-5ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plantuml/1:1.2020.2+ds-3ubuntu1.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plantuml/1:1.2020.2+ds-1ubuntu0.1