Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
• Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

It was discovered that Expat incorrectly handled certain XML files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2018-20843

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 315.64
  • 250.x versions prior to 250.79
  • 170.x versions prior to 170.107
  • 97.x versions prior to 97.132
  • All other stemcells not listed.
• All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs3 prior to 0.108.0

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 315.64
  • Upgrade 250.x versions to 250.79
  • Upgrade 170.x versions to 170.107
  • Upgrade 97.x versions to 97.132
  • 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 0.108.0 or later.

References

• USN-4040-1
• CVE-2018-20843