USN-5235-1: Ruby vulnerabilities

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Description

It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain HTML files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 21.04, and Ubuntu 21.10. (CVE-2021-41816) It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a regular expression denial of service. (CVE-2021-41817) It was discovered that Ruby incorrectly handled certain cookie names. An attacker could possibly use this issue to access or expose sensitive information. (CVE-2021-41819)

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2021-41816, CVE-2021-41817, CVE-2021-41819.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

• cflinuxfs3
  • All versions prior to 0.272.0
• CF Deployment
  • All versions prior to 18.0.0

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 0.272.0 or greater
• CF Deployment
  • Upgrade all versions to 18.0.0 or greater

History

2022-03-09: Initial vulnerability report published.