Yubico PIV Tool vulnerabilities

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

* Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Summary

Yubico PIV Tool could be made to crash or run programs as an
administrator if it received specially crafted input.

Software Description

* yubico-piv-tool - Command line tool for the YubiKey PIV applet

Details

It was discovered that libykpiv, a supporting library of the
Yubico PIV Tool and YubiKey PIV Manager, mishandled specially
crafted input. An attacker with a custom-made, malicious USB
device could potentially execute arbitrary code on a computer
running the Yubico PIV Tool or Yubikey PIV Manager.

Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
libykpiv1 - 1.4.2-2ubuntu0.1
ykcs11 - 1.4.2-2ubuntu0.1
yubico-piv-tool - 1.4.2-2ubuntu0.1

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

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to
make all the necessary changes.

References

* CVE-2018-14779
* CVE-2018-14780

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