USN-5334-1: man-db vulnerability | Cloud Foundry

Severity

Low

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 16.04

Description

It was discovered that man-db incorrectly handled permission changing operations in its daily cron job, and was therefore affected by a race condition. An attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code.

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2015-1336.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is low unless otherwise noted.

• CF Deployment
  • All versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.224

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigations below. The Cloud Foundry project recommends upgrading the following releases:

• CF Deployment
  • For all versions, upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.224 or greater

References

• USN Notice
• CVE-2015-1336

History

2022-04-21: Initial vulnerability report published.