USN-5124-1: GNU binutils vulnerabilities

Severity

Low

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Description

Several security issues were fixed in GNU binutils.

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2020-16592, CVE-2021-3487.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is low unless otherwise noted.

• Bionic Stemcells
  • 1.x versions
  • All other stemcells not listed.
• cflinuxfs3
  • All versions prior to 0.263.0
• CF Deployment
  • All versions

Mitigation

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

• Bionic Stemcells
  • There are no fixed versions of this product
  • All other stemcells should be upgraded to the latest version available on bosh.io.
• cflinuxfs3
  • Upgrade all versions to 0.263.0 or greater
• CF Deployment
  • There are no fixed versions of this product

History

2021-10-28: Initial vulnerability report published.