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USN-2834-1 libxml2 vulnerability


Severity

Medium

Vendor

libxml2

Versions Affected

  • Ubuntu 14.04

Description

Kostya Serebryany discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-5312, CVE-2015-7497, CVE-2015-7498, CVE-2015-7499,CVE-2015-7500)

Hugh Davenport discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-8241, CVE-2015-8242)

Hanno Boeck discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.04. (CVE-2015-8317)

The Cloud Foundry project released a BOSH stemcell version 3146.1 and 3155 that has the patched version of the Linux kernel. A new Cloud Foundry rootfs was also released, cflinuxfs2 v.1.22.0, that has the patches.

Pivotal is releasing an updated version of Pivotal Cloud Foundry Suite which references this patched BOSH stemcell and CF rootfs.

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • All versions of Cloud Foundry BOSH stemcells prior to 3155 are vulnerable, besides patched versions of 3146.x.
  • All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to v.1.22.0.
  • Pivotal Cloud Foundry Elastic Runtime pre-1.5.9 versions and 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.9.
  • Pivotal Ops Manager pre-1.5.11 versions and 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.6.
  • Pivotal Redis pre-1.4.15 versions and 1.5.x versions prior to 1.5.4.
  • Pivotal GemFire SSC pre-1.1.0.4 versions and 1.1.x versions before 1.1.6.0.
  • Pivotal RabbitMQ pre-1.5.2 versions.
  • Pivotal Ops Metrics pre-1.4.9 versions, all 1.5.x versions, and all 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.2.

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:

  • The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with BOSH stemcells 3155 or later versions, or patched 3146.x versions, and cflinuxfs2 v.1.22.0 or later versions.
  • Pivotal recommends that customers upgrade to the 1.5.10 or later 1.5.x versions or the 1.6.9 or later versions of Pivotal Cloud Foundry Elastic Runtime.
  • 1.5.11 or later 1.5.x versions or the 1.6.6 or later versions of Pivotal Ops Manager.
  • 1.1.6.0 or later versions of Pivotal GemFire SSC and 1.1.0.4 or later 1.1.0.x versions.
  • 1.4.15 or later 1.4.x versions and 1.5.4 or later versions of Pivotal Redis.
  • 1.5.2 or later versions of RabbitMQ.
  • The 1.4.9 or later 1.4.x versions or the 1.6.2 or later versions of Pivotal Ops Metrics.

Credit

Kostya Serebryany, Hugh Davenport, Hanno Boeck

References