Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu, fontconfig

Versions Affected

Canonical Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Description

Tobias Stoeckmann discovered that Fontconfig incorrectly handled cache files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue with a specially crafted cache file to elevate privileges.

Affected Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

• All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to v.1.76.0

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:

• The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with cflinuxfs2 v.1.76.0 or later versions

Credit

Tobias Stoeckmann

References

• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-3063-1/
• http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-5384.html