USN-5068-1: GD library vulnerabilities

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Description

It was discovered that GD Graphics Library incorrectly handled certain GD and GD2 files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-6363)

It was discovered that GD Graphics Library incorrectly handled certain TGA files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or expose sensitive information. (CVE-2021-381)

It was discovered that GD Graphics Library incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash. (CVE-2021-40145)

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2021-40145, CVE-2021-38115, CVE-2017-6363.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

• cflinuxfs3
  • All versions prior to 0.255.0
• CF Deployment
  • All versions prior to 16.24.0

Mitigation

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

• cflinuxfs3
  • Upgrade all versions to 0.255.0 or greater
• CF Deployment
  • Upgrade all versions to 16.24.0 or greater

History

2021-10-04: Initial vulnerability report published.