Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 18.04
• Canonical Ubuntu 22.04

Description

Irvan Kurniawan discovered that libwebp incorrectly handled certain memory operations. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted image file, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause libwebp to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Update Instructions: Run sudo pro fix USN-6078-1 to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: webp – 0.6.1-2ubuntu0.18.04.2 libwebp6 – 0.6.1-2ubuntu0.18.04.2 libwebpmux3 – 0.6.1-2ubuntu0.18.04.2 libwebp-dev – 0.6.1-2ubuntu0.18.04.2 libwebpdemux2 – 0.6.1-2ubuntu0.18.04.2 No subscription required

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2023-1999.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

• cflinuxfs3
  • All versions prior to 0.365.0
• cflinuxfs4
  • All versions prior to 1.9.0
• CF Deployment
  • All versions prior to 30.0.0

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 0.365.0 or greater
• cflinuxfs4
  • Upgrade all versions to 1.9.0 or greater
• CF Deployment
  • Upgrade all versions to 30.0.0 or greater

References

• USN Notice
• CVE-2023-1999

History

2023-05-25: Initial vulnerability report published.