Severity
Medium
Vendor
libxml2
Versions Affected
- Ubuntu 14.04
Description
Florian Weimer discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain XML data. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause resource consumption, resulting in a denial of service.
Michal Zalewski discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain XML data. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
Kostya Serebryany discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain XML data. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Gustavo Grieco discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain XML data. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service.
The Cloud Foundry project released a BOSH stemcell version 3144 that has the patched version of the Linux kernel. A new Cloud Foundry rootfs was also released, cflinuxfs2 v.1.18.0, that has the patches.
Affected Products and Versions
Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.
- All versions of Cloud Foundry BOSH stemcells prior to 3143 are vulnerable.
- All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to v.1.18.0.
Mitigation
Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:
- The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with BOSH stemcells 3137 or later versions and cflinuxfs2 v.1.18.0 or later versions.
Credit
Florian Weimer, Michal Zalewski, Kostya Serebryany, Gustavo Grieco
