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USN-2820-1 dpkg vulnerability


Severity

Medium

Vendor

dpkg

Versions Affected

  • Ubuntu 14.04

Description

Hanno Boeck discovered that the dpkg-deb tool incorrectly handled certain old style Debian binary packages. If a user or an automated system were tricked into unpacking a specially crafted binary package, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

The Cloud Foundry project released a BOSH stemcell version 3145 that has the patched version of the Linux kernel. A new Cloud Foundry rootfs was also released, cflinuxfs2 v.1.20.0, 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 3145 are vulnerable.
  • All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to v.1.20.0.
  • Pivotal Cloud Foundry Elastic Runtime pre-1.5.9 versions and 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.6.
  • Pivotal Ops Manager pre-1.5.10 versions and 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.4.
  • Pivotal Redis pre-1.4.14 versions and 1.5.x versions prior to 1.5.2.
  • Pivotal GemFire SSC pre-1.1.0.3 versions and pre-1.1.5.0 versions.
  • Pivotal RabbitMQ pre-1.4.10 versions.
  • Pivotal Ops Metrics pre-1.4.8 versions and all 1.5.x versions.

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:

  • The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with BOSH stemcells 3145 or later versions and cflinuxfs2 v.1.20.0 or later versions.
  • Pivotal recommends that customers upgrade to the 1.5.9 or later 1.5.x versions or the 1.6.6 or later versions of Pivotal Cloud Foundry Elastic Runtime.
  • 1.5.10 or later 1.5.x versions or the 1.6.4 or later versions of Pivotal Ops Manager.
  • 1.1.0.3 or later 1.1.0.x versions or the 1.1.5.0 or later versions of Pivotal GemFire SSC.
  • 1.4.14 or later 1.4.x versions and 1.5.2 or later versions of Pivotal Redis.
  • 1.4.10 or later versions of RabbitMQ.
  • The 1.4.8 or later 1.4.x versions or the 1.6.1 or later versions of Pivotal Ops Metrics.

Credit

Hanno Boeck

References