Severity
Low
Vendor
Canonical Ubuntu
Versions Affected
- Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
- Canonical Ubuntu 18.04
Description
It was discovered that shadow incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-12424) It was discovered that shadow incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2018-7169)
CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2017-12424, CVE-2018-7169.
Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions
Severity is low unless otherwise noted.
- Bionic Stemcells
- 1.x versions prior to 1.61
- All other stemcells not listed.
- cflinuxfs3
- All versions prior to 0.273.0
- CF Deployment
- All versions prior to 18.0.0, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.208
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 1.61 or greater
- All other stemcells should be upgraded to the latest version available on bosh.io.
- cflinuxfs3
- Upgrade all versions to 0.273.0 or greater
- CF Deployment
- Upgrade all versions to 18.0.0 or greater and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.208 or greater
References
History
2022-03-10: Initial vulnerability report published.
