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USN-2834-1 libxml2 vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

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USN-2834-1 libxml2 vulnerability # Medium # Vendor libxml2 # Versions Affected * Ubuntu 14.04 # Description Kostya Serebryany discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-5312, CVE-2015-7497, CVE-2015-7498, CVE-2015-7499,CVE-2015-7500) Hugh Davenport discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-8241, CVE-2015-8242) Hanno Boeck discovered that libxml2 incorrectly handled certain malformed documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted document, an attacker could possibly cause libxml2 to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.04. (CVE-2015-8317) The Cloud Foundry project released a BOSH stemcell version 3146.1 and 3155 that has the patched version of the Linux kernel. A new Cloud Foundry rootfs was also released, cflinuxfs2 v.1.22.0, that has the patches. # Affected Products and Versions _Severity is medium unless otherwise noted. _ * All versions of Cloud Foundry BOSH stemcells prior to 3155 are vulnerable, besides patched versions of 3146.x. * All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to v.1.22.0. # Mitigation Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation: * The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with BOSH stemcells 3155 or later versions, or patched 3146.x versions, and cflinuxfs2 v.1.22.0 or later versions. # Credit Kostya Serebryany, Hugh Davenport, Hanno Boeck # References * <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2834-1> * <https://bosh.io/stemcells> * <https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-release>


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