USN-5209-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity

High

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Description

Nadav Amit discovered that the hugetlb implementation in the Linux kernel did not perform TLB flushes under certain conditions. A local attacker could use this to leak or alter data from other processes that use huge pages. (CVE-2021-4002) It was discovered that a race condition existed in the timer implementation in the Linux kernel. A privileged attacker could use this cause a denial of service. (CVE-2021-20317) It was discovered that a race condition existed in the overlay file system implementation in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2021-20321) It was discovered that the NFC subsystem in the Linux kernel contained a use-after-free vulnerability in its NFC Controller Interface (NCI) implementation. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-3760) It was discovered that an integer overflow could be triggered in the eBPF implementation in the Linux kernel when preallocating objects for stack maps. A privileged local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-41864) It was discovered that the ISDN CAPI implementation in the Linux kernel contained a race condition in certain situations that could trigger an array out-of-bounds bug. A privileged local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-43389)

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2021-3760, CVE-2021-43389, CVE-2021-4002, CVE-2021-20317, CVE-2021-20321, CVE-2021-41864.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is high unless otherwise noted.

• Bionic Stemcells
  • 1.x versions prior to 1.54
  • All other stemcells not listed.
• cflinuxfs3
  • All versions prior to 0.272.0
• CF Deployment
  • All versions prior to 18.0.0, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.196

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 1.54 or greater
  • All other stemcells should be upgraded to the latest version available on bosh.io.
• cflinuxfs3
  • Upgrade all versions to 0.272.0 or greater
• CF Deployment
  • Upgrade all versions to 18.0.0 or greater and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.196 or greater

History

2022-03-08: Initial vulnerability report published.