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USN-6050-1: Git vulnerabilities

Severity

Medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 18.04
• Canonical Ubuntu 22.04

Description

It was discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain commands. An attacker could possibly use this issue to overwriting some paths. (CVE-2023-25652) Maxime Escourbiac and Yassine BENGANA discovered that Git incorrectly handled some gettext machinery. An attacker could possibly use this issue to allows the malicious placement of crafted messages. (CVE-2023-25815) André Baptista and Vítor Pinho discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain configurations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to arbitrary configuration injection. (CVE-2023-29007) Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6050-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: git - 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.18 gitweb - 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.18 git-all - 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.18 git-daemon-sysvinit - 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.18 git-el - 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.18 gitk - 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.18 git-gui - 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.18 git-mediawiki - 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.18 git-daemon-run - 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.18 git-man - 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.18 git-doc - 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.18 git-svn - 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.18 git-cvs - 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.18 git-email - 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.18 No subscription required

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2023-25652, CVE-2023-29007, CVE-2023-25815

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

• Platform Automation Toolkit
  • 4.4.x versions prior to 4.4.31
  • 5.0.x versions prior to 5.0.24
  • 5.1.x versions prior to 5.1.1

• Isolation Segment
  • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.33
  • 2.13.x versions prior to 2.13.18
  • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.11
  • 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.2

• Operations Manager
  • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.9+LTS-T

• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
  • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.39
  • 2.13.x versions prior to 2.13.21
  • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.11
  • 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.2

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
  • 4.4.31
  • 5.0.24
  • 5.1.1

• Isolation Segment
  • 2.11.33
  • 2.13.18
  • 3.0.11
  • 4.0.2

• Operations Manager
  • 3.0.9+LTS-T

• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
  • 2.11.39
  • 2.13.21
  • 3.0.11
  • 4.0.2

References

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-25652
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-29007
• http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2023-25815
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6050-1
• https://cloudfoundry.org/blog/usn-6050-1

History

2023-06-29: Initial vulnerability report published.