USN-4991-1: libxml2 vulnerabilities

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Description

Yunho Kim discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain error conditions. A remote attacker could exploit this with a crafted XML file to cause a denial of service, or possibly cause libxml2 to expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-8872)

Zhipeng Xie discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain XML schemas. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-20388)

It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled invalid UTF-8 input. A remote attacker could possibly exploit this with a crafted XML file to cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.10. (CVE-2020-24977)

It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled invalid UTF-8 input. A remote attacker could possibly exploit this with a crafted XML file to cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2021-3517)

It was discovered that libxml2 did not properly handle certain crafted XML files. A local attacker could exploit this with a crafted input to cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-3516, CVE-2021-3518)

It was discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled error states. A remote attacker could exploit this with a crafted XML file to cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2021-3537)

Sebastian Pipping discovered that libxml2 did not properly handle certain crafted XML files. A remote attacker could exploit this with a crafted XML file to cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.10, and Ubuntu 21.04. (CVE-2021-3541)

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2017-8872, CVE-2021-3516, CVE-2020-24977, CVE-2021-3541, CVE-2021-3537, CVE-2021-3517, CVE-2021-3518, CVE-2019-20388.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

• Bionic Stemcells
  • 1.x versions prior to 1.13
  • All other stemcells not listed.
• cflinuxfs3
  • All versions prior to 0.245.0
• CF Deployment
  • All versions prior to 16.16.0

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigations below. The Cloud Foundry project recommends upgrading the following releases:

• Bionic Stemcells
  • Upgrade 1.x versions to 1.13 or greater
  • All other stemcells should be upgraded to the latest version available on bosh.io.
• cflinuxfs3
  • Upgrade all versions to 0.245.0 or greater
• CF Deployment
  • Upgrade all versions to 16.16.0 or greater

History

2021-07-08: Initial vulnerability report published.