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Security Advisory

USN-5329-1: tar vulnerability

Severity

Low

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
  • Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

It was discovered that tar incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause tar to crash, resulting in a denial of service.

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2021-20193.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is low unless otherwise noted.

  • Bionic Stemcells
    • 1.x versions prior to 1.71
    • All other stemcells not listed.
  • cflinuxfs3
    • All versions prior to 0.278.0
  • CF Deployment
    • All versions prior to 20.0.0, or later versions with Bionic Stemcells prior to 1.71 or Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.224

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 1.71 or greater
    • All other stemcells should be upgraded to the latest version available on bosh.io.
  • cflinuxfs3
    • Upgrade all versions to 0.278.0 or greater
  • CF Deployment
    • Upgrade all versions to 20.0.0 or greater, upgrade Bionic Stemcells to 1.71 or greater, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.224 or greater

History

2022-05-23: Initial vulnerability report published.

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