USN-4293-1: libarchive vulnerabilities

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain archive files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information. (CVE-2019-19221)

It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain archive files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash resulting in a denial of service or possibly unspecified other impact. This issue only affected Ubuntu 19.10. (CVE-2020-9308)

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2019-19221, CVE-2020-9308

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

Vulnerable Cloud Foundry components individually listed here.

Impacted stemcells may be updated independently of upgrading Pivotal Application Service or PCF Isolation Segment.

Isolation Segment
- 2.6.x versions prior to 2.6.16
- 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.11
- 2.8.x versions prior to 2.8.5

Operations Manager
- 2.6.x versions prior to 2.6.24
- 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.14
- 2.8.x versions prior to 2.8.5

VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
- 2.6.x versions prior to 2.6.17
- 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.11
- 2.8.x versions prior to 2.8.5

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigation below. The Cloud Foundry security team recommends upgrading the affected OSS components listed here if applicable. Upgrade Pivotal products that use earlier versions of CF components to new Pivotal releases using new versions linked above. On the Pivotal Network product page for each release, check the Depends On section and/or Release Notes for this information. Releases that have fixed this issue include:

Isolation Segment
- 2.6.16
- 2.7.11
- 2.8.5

Operations Manager
- 2.6.24
- 2.7.14
- 2.8.5

VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
- 2.6.17
- 2.7.11
- 2.8.5

References

History

2020-03-02: Initial vulnerability report published.