USN-4142-1: e2fsprogs vulnerability
Severity
Medium
Vendor
Canonical Ubuntu
Versions Affected
- Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
- Canonical Ubuntu 18.04
Description
It was discovered that e2fsprogs incorrectly handled certain ext4 partitions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2019-5094
Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions
Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.
- Cloud Foundry BOSH xenial-stemcells are vulnerable, including:
- 456.x versions prior to 456.30
- 315.x versions prior to 315.103
- 250.x versions prior to 250.116
- 170.x versions prior to 170.140
- 97.x versions prior to 97.163
- All other stemcells not listed.
- All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs3 prior to 0.129.0
Mitigation
Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow one of the mitigations below:
- The Cloud Foundry project recommends upgrading the following BOSH xenial-stemcells:
- Upgrade 456.x versions to 456.30
- Upgrade 315.x versions to 315.103
- Upgrade 250.x versions to 250.116
- Upgrade 170.x versions to 170.140
- Upgrade 97.x versions to 97.163
- All other stemcells should be upgraded to the latest version available on bosh.io.
- The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with cflinuxfs3 version 0.129.0 or later.
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