USN-5288-1: Expat vulnerabilities

Severity

High

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Description

It was discovered that Expat incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code.

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2021-45960, CVE-2021-46143, CVE-2022-22822, CVE-2022-22823, CVE-2022-22824, CVE-2022-22825, CVE-2022-22826, CVE-2022-22827, CVE-2022-23852, CVE-2022-23990, CVE-2022-25235, CVE-2022-25236.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is high unless otherwise noted.

• Bionic Stemcells
  • 1.x versions prior to 1.67
  • All other stemcells not listed.
• cflinuxfs3
  • All versions prior to 0.274.0
• CF Deployment
  • All versions prior to 18.0.0, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.216

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 1.67 or greater
  • All other stemcells should be upgraded to the latest version available on bosh.io.
• cflinuxfs3
  • Upgrade all versions to 0.274.0 or greater
• CF Deployment
  • Upgrade all versions to 18.0.0 or greater and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.216 or greater

History

2022-04-21: Initial vulnerability report published.