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USN-2981-1 libarchive vulnerabilities


Severity

Medium

Vendor

Libarchive, Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Description

It was discovered that libarchive incorrectly handled certain entry-size values in ZIP archives. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause libarchive to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-1541)

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to v.1.58.0
  • Pivotal Elastic Runtime 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.27 AND 1.7.x versions prior to 1.7.5
  • Pivotal Ops Manager 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.15 AND 1.7.x versions prior to 1.7.6
  • Pivotal MySQL 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.12 AND 1.7.x versions prior to 1.7.9 AND edge release versions prior to 1.8.0-edge.7
  • Pivotal RiakCS 1.5.x versions prior to 1.5.13
  • Pivotal RabbitMQ 1.5.x versions prior to 1.5.12 AND 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.1
  • Pivotal Redis 1.4.x versions prior to 1.4.25 AND 1.5.x versions prior to 1.5.14
  • Pivotal Push Notification Service 1.4.x versions prior to 1.4.9
  • PCF Metrics 1.0.x versions prior to 1.0.6
  • PCF Metrics: Log Search 1.x versions prior to 1.0.0
  • PCF Metrics: JMX Bridge 1.7.x versions prior to 1.7.3
  • Pivotal Single Sign On 1.x versions prior to 1.13 AND 1.1.x versions prior to 1.1.1
  • Pivotal Spring Cloud Services 1.0.x versions prior to 1.0.10

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:

  • The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with cflinuxfs2 v.1.58.0 or later versions
  • Upgrade Pivotal Elastic Runtime 1.6.x versions to 1.6.27 or later OR 1.7.x versions to 1.7.5 or later
  • Upgrade Pivotal Ops Manager 1.6.x versions to 1.6.15 or later OR 1.7.x versions to 1.7.6 or later
  • Upgrade Pivotal MySQL to 1.6.12 or later 1.6.x versions OR 1.7.x versions to 1.7.9 or later OR edge versions 1.8.0-edge.7 or later
  • Upgrade Pivotal RiakCS 1.5.x versions to 1.5.13 or later
  • Upgrade Pivotal RabbitMQ 1.5.x versions to 1.5.12 or later OR 1.6.x versions to 1.6.1 or later
  • Upgrade Pivotal Redis 1.4.x versions to 1.4.25 or later OR 1.5.x versions to 1.5.14 or later
  • Upgrade Pivotal Push Notification Service 1.4.x versions to 1.4.9
  • Upgrade PCF Metrics 1.0.x versions to 1.0.6 or later
  • Upgrade PCF Metrics: Log Search 1.x versions to 1.0.0 or later
  • Upgrade PCF Metrics: JMX Bridge 1.7.x versions to 1.7.3 or later
  • Upgrade Pivotal Single Sign On 1.x versions to 1.13 or later OR 1.1.x versions to 1.1.1 or later
  • Upgrade Pivotal Spring Cloud Services 1.0.x versions to 1.0.10 or later

Special Note for 1.7.x Ops Manager Deployments

The 1.7.x release line of Ops Manager includes a new feature that allows tile stemcells to “float”, which will allow Operators to update their Ops Manager deployment once rather than installing all new Services product releases. If you upgrade one Service tile in Ops Manager 1.7.x with the newly released stemcell, all tiles will automatically upgrade. For more information about the floating stemcell feature, refer to this document.

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