USN-5810-1: Git vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 18.04
• Canonical Ubuntu 22.04

Description

Markus Vervier and Eric Sesterhenn discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain gitattributes. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-23521) Joern Schneeweisz discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain commands. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-41903) Update Instructions: Run sudo pro fix USN-5810-1 to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: git – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.14 gitweb – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.14 git-all – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.14 git-daemon-sysvinit – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.14 git-el – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.14 gitk – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.14 git-gui – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.14 git-mediawiki – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.14 git-daemon-run – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.14 git-man – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.14 git-doc – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.14 git-svn – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.14 git-cvs – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.14 git-email – 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.14 No subscription required

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2022-23521, CVE-2022-41903.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

• cflinuxfs3
  • All versions prior to 0.351.0
• cflinuxfs4
  • All versions prior to 0.57.0
• CF Deployment
  • All versions prior to 26.4.0

Mitigation

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

• cflinuxfs3
  • Upgrade all versions to 0.351.0 or greater
• cflinuxfs4
  • Upgrade all versions to 0.57.0 or greater
• CF Deployment
  • Upgrade all versions to 26.4.0 or greater

References

• USN Notice
• CVE-2022-23521
• CVE-2022-41903

History

2023-02-23: Initial vulnerability report published.