A new release of the Ubuntu Cloud Images for stable Ubuntu release 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) is available at [1]. These new images superseded the existing images [2]. Images are available for download or immediate use on EC2 via publish AMI ids. Users who wish to update their existing installations can do so with:
   'sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade && sudo reboot'.

The following packages have been updated. Please see the full changelogs
for a complete listing of changes:
 * tar: 1.28-2.1ubuntu0.1 => 1.28-2.1ubuntu0.2 


The following is a complete changelog for this image.
new: {}
removed: {}
changed: ['tar']
new snaps: {}
removed snaps: {}
changed snaps: []
==== tar: 1.28-2.1ubuntu0.1 => 1.28-2.1ubuntu0.2 ====
====     tar
  * SECURITY UPDATE: Infinite read loop
    - debian/patches/Fix-CVE-2018-20482.patch: Add handling for short read
      condition in sparse_dump_region() of src/sparse.c.
    - CVE-2018-20482
  * SECURITY UPDATE: NULL pointer dereference
    - debian/patches/CVE-2019-9923.patch: Check for NULL return value from
      find_next_block in src/sparse.c.
    - CVE-2019-9923 

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[1] http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/xenial/release-20210114/
[2] http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/xenial/release-20210112/