USN-3736-1: libarchive vulnerabilities
Severity
Low
Vendor
Canonical Ubuntu
Versions Affected
- Canonical Ubuntu 14.04
- Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
- Canonical Ubuntu 18.04
Description
It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain archive files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-10209, CVE-2016-10349, CVE-2016-10350)
Agostino Sarubbo discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain XAR files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-14166)
It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to get access to sensitive information. (CVE-2017-14501, CVE-2017-14503)
Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions
Severity is low unless otherwise noted.
- Cloud Foundry BOSH trusty-stemcells are vulnerable, including:
- 3363.x versions prior to 3363.72
- 3421.x versions prior to 3421.79
- 3445.x versions prior to 3445.64
- 3468.x versions prior to 3468.64
- 3541.x versions prior to 3541.44
- 3586.x versions prior to 3586.36
- All other stemcells not listed.
- Cloud Foundry BOSH xenial-stemcells are vulnerable, including:
- 97.x versions prior to 97.12
- All other stemcells not listed.
- All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to 1.229.0
- All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs3 prior to 0.9.0
Mitigation
OSS users are strongly encouraged to follow one of the mitigations below:
- The Cloud Foundry project recommends upgrading the following BOSH trusty-stemcells:
- Upgrade 3363.x versions to 3363.72
- Upgrade 3421.x versions to 3421.79
- Upgrade 3445.x versions to 3445.64
- Upgrade 3468.x versions to 3468.64
- Upgrade 3541.x versions to 3541.44
- Upgrade 3586.x versions to 3586.36
- All other stemcells should be upgraded to the latest version available on bosh.io.
- The Cloud Foundry project recommends upgrading the following BOSH xenial-stemcells:
- Upgrade 97.x versions to 97.12
- 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 1.229.0 or later.
- The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with cflinuxfs3 version 0.9.0 or later.
