It was discovered that CivetWeb did not correctly handle parsing certain URIs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. ( CVE-2025-55763 ) It was discovered that CivetWeb did not correctly handle parsing certain HTTP requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. ( CVE-2025-9648 )
It was discovered that CivetWeb did not correctly handle parsing certain URIs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. ( CVE-2025-55763 )
It was discovered that CivetWeb did not correctly handle parsing certain HTTP requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. ( CVE-2025-9648 )
It was discovered that CivetWeb did not correctly handle parsing certain URIs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. ( CVE-2025-55763 ) It was discovered that CivetWeb did not correctly handle parsing certain HTTP requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. ( CVE-2025-9648 )
It was discovered that CivetWeb did not correctly handle parsing certain URIs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. ( CVE-2025-55763 )
It was discovered that CivetWeb did not correctly handle parsing certain HTTP requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. ( CVE-2025-9648 )
After a standard system update you need to restart civetweb to make all the necessary changes.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
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