Severity

Low

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
• Canonical Ubuntu 18.04
• Canonical Ubuntu 22.04

Description

Zhen Zhou discovered that Vim did not properly manage memory. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service Update Instructions: Run sudo pro fix USN-6698-1 to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: vim – 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm23 vim-athena – 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm23 vim-athena-py2 – 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm23 vim-common – 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm23 vim-doc – 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm23 vim-gnome – 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm23 vim-gnome-py2 – 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm23 vim-gtk – 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm23 vim-gtk-py2 – 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm23 vim-gtk3 – 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm23 vim-gtk3-py2 – 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm23 vim-gui-common – 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm23 vim-nox – 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm23 vim-nox-py2 – 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm23 vim-runtime – 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm23 vim-tiny – 2:7.4.1689-3ubuntu1.5+esm23 Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2024-22667.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is low unless otherwise noted.

• Bionic Stemcells
  • 1.x versions
  • All other stemcells not listed.
• cflinuxfs4
  • All versions prior to 1.84.0
• Jammy Stemcells
  • 1.x versions prior to 1.423
  • All other stemcells not listed.
• CF Deployment
  • All versions prior to 30.0.0, or later versions with Jammy Stemcells prior to 1.423

Mitigation

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

The Cloud Foundry project recommends upgrading the following releases:

• Bionic Stemcells
  • There are no fixed versions of this product
  • All other stemcells should be upgraded to the latest version available on bosh.io.
• cflinuxfs4
  • Upgrade all versions to 1.84.0 or greater
• Jammy Stemcells
  • Upgrade 1.x versions to 1.423 or greater
  • All other stemcells should be upgraded to the latest version available on bosh.io.
• CF Deployment
  • Upgrade all versions to 30.0.0 or greater and upgrade Jammy Stemcells to 1.423 or greater

References

• USN Notice
• CVE-2024-22667

History

2024-05-02: Initial vulnerability report published.