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USN-5495-1: curl vulnerabilities

Severity

Medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 18.04
• Canonical Ubuntu 22.04

Description

Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain cookies. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 21.10, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-32205) Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain HTTP compressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2022-32206) Harry Sintonen incorrectly handled certain file permissions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 21.10, and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-32207) Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain FTP-KRB messages. An attacker could possibly use this to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack. (CVE-2022-32208) Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-5495-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: libcurl4-gnutls-dev - 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.3 libcurl4-openssl-dev - 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.3 libcurl3-gnutls - 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.3 libcurl4-doc - 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.3 libcurl3-nss - 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.3 libcurl4-nss-dev - 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.3 libcurl4 - 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.3 curl - 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.3 No subscription required

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2022-32205, CVE-2022-32206, CVE-2022-32207, CVE-2022-32208

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

• Platform Automation Toolkit
  • 4.4.x versions prior to 4.4.29
  • 5.0.x versions prior to 5.0.22

• Isolation Segment
  • 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.47
  • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.27
  • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.16
  • 2.12.x versions prior to 2.12.11

• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
  • 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.52
  • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.34
  • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.22
  • 2.12.x versions prior to 2.12.16
  • 2.13.x versions prior to 2.13.7

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigation below. On the Tanzu 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:

• Platform Automation Toolkit
  • 4.4.29
  • 5.0.22

• Isolation Segment
  • 2.7.47
  • 2.10.27
  • 2.11.16
  • 2.12.11

• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
  • 2.7.52
  • 2.10.34
  • 2.11.22
  • 2.12.16
  • 2.13.7

References

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-32205
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-32206
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-32207
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-32208
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5495-1
• https://cloudfoundry.org/blog/usn-5495-1

History

2022-12-08: Initial vulnerability report published.