Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
• Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-5953)

It was discovered that Vim incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-12735)

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2017-5953, CVE-2019-12735

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

• Cloud Foundry BOSH xenial-stemcells are vulnerable, including:
  • 315.x versions prior to 315.41
  • 250.x versions prior to 250.63
  • 170.x versions prior to 170.82
  • 97.x versions prior to 97.113
  • All other stemcells not listed.
• All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs3 prior to 0.101.0

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow one of the mitigations below:

• The Cloud Foundry project recommends upgrading the following BOSH xenial-stemcells:
  • Upgrade 315.x versions to 315.41
  • Upgrade 250.x versions to 250.63
  • Upgrade 170.x versions to 170.82
  • Upgrade 97.x versions to 97.113
  • All other stemcells should be upgraded to the latest version available on bosh.io.
• The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with cflinuxfs3 version 0.101.0 or later.

References

• USN-4016-1
• CVE-2017-5953
• CVE-2019-12735