USN-3686-1: file vulnerabilities
Severity
Low
Vendor
Canonical Ubuntu
Versions Affected
- Canonical Ubuntu 14.04
Description
Alexander Cherepanov discovered that file incorrectly handled a large number of notes. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-9620)
Alexander Cherepanov discovered that file incorrectly handled certain long strings. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-9621)
Alexander Cherepanov discovered that file incorrectly handled certain malformed ELF files. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-9653)
It was discovered that file incorrectly handled certain magic files. An attacker could use this issue with a specially crafted magic file to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-8865)
It was discovered that file incorrectly handled certain malformed ELF files. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-10360)
Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions
Severity is low unless otherwise noted.
- Cloud Foundry BOSH stemcells are vulnerable, including:
- 3586.x versions prior to 3586.24
- 3541.x versions prior to 3541.34
- 3468.x versions prior to 3468.51
- 3445.x versions prior to 3445.51
- 3421.x versions prior to 3421.66
- 3363.x versions prior to 3363.65
- All other stemcells not listed.
- All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to 1.218.0
Mitigation
OSS users are strongly encouraged to follow one of the mitigations below:
- The Cloud Foundry project recommends upgrading the following BOSH stemcells:
- Upgrade 3586.x versions to 3586.24
- Upgrade 3541.x versions to 3541.34
- Upgrade 3468.x versions to 3468.51
- Upgrade 3445.x versions to 3445.51
- Upgrade 3421.x versions to 3421.66
- Upgrade 3363.x versions to 3363.65
- 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 cflinuxfs2 version 1.218.0 or later.
