USN-2788-1 and USN-2788-2 unzip vulnerability

Medium

Vendor

unzip

Versions Affected

• Ubuntu 14.04

Description

Gustavo Grieco discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain password protected archives. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted zip archive, an attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-7696)

Gustavo Grieco discovered that unzip incorrectly handled certain malformed archives. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted zip archive, an attacker could possibly cause unzip to hang, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2015-7697)

The Cloud Foundry project released a BOSH stemcell version 3130 that has the patched version of the Linux kernel. A new Cloud Foundry rootfs was also released, cflinuxfs2 v.1.17.0, that has the patches.

Affected Products and Versions

_Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.
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• All versions of Cloud Foundry BOSH stemcells prior to 3130 have versions of the kernel vulnerable to USN-2806-1.
• All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to v.1.17.0.

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:

• The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with BOSH stemcells 3130 or later versions and cflinuxfs2 v.1.17.0 or later versions.

Credit

Gustavo Grieco

References

• <http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2788-1&gt;
• <https://bosh.io/stemcells&gt;
• <https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cf-release&gt;