USN-2927-1 Graphite2 vulnerabilities
Severity
Medium
Vendor
Graphite2
Versions Affected
- Ubuntu 14.04
Description
Graphite2 could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted font.
It was discovered that graphite2 incorrectly handled certain malformed fonts. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially-crafted font file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause graphite2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Affected VMware Products and Versions
Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.
- All versions of Cloud Foundry rootfs prior to 1.44.0
- All versions of Pivotal Elastic Runtime prior to 1.5.18 and all 1.6.x versions prior to 1.6.19
Mitigation
Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:
- The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with rootfs version 1.44.0 and higher
- Upgrade Pivotal Elastic Runtime 1.5.x versions to 1.5.18 or later OR 1.6.x versions to 1.6.19 or later
Credit
None