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USN-4168-1: Libidn2 vulnerabilities

USN-4168-1: Libidn2 vulnerabilities

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

It was discovered that Libidn2 incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to impersonate domains. (CVE-2019-12290)

It was discovered that Libidn2 incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-18224)

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2019-12290, CVE-2019-18224

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs3 prior to 0.138.0

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow one of the mitigations below:

  • The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with cflinuxfs3 version 0.138.0 or later.

References

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