USN-5068-1: GD library vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 14.04
• Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
• Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

It was discovered that GD Graphics Library incorrectly handled certain GD and GD2 files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or expose sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, and Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. (CVE-2017-6363)

It was discovered that GD Graphics Library incorrectly handled certain TGA files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or expose sensitive information. (CVE-2021-381)

It was discovered that GD Graphics Library incorrectly handled certain files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash. (CVE-2021-40145)

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2021-40145, CVE-2021-38115, CVE-2017-6363.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

• cflinuxfs3
  • All versions prior to 0.255.0
• CF Deployment
  • All versions prior to 16.24.0

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 0.255.0 or greater
• CF Deployment
  • Upgrade all versions to 16.24.0 or greater

References

• USN Notice
• CVE-2021-40145
• CVE-2021-38115
• CVE-2017-6363

History

2021-10-04: Initial vulnerability report published.