USN-4877-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities | Cloud Foundry

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 16.04

Description

It was discovered that the Marvell WiFi-Ex device driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate ad-hoc SSIDs. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-36158)

吴异 discovered that the NFS implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly prevent access outside of an NFS export that is a subdirectory of a file system. An attacker could possibly use this to bypass NFS access restrictions. (CVE-2021-3178)

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2021-3178, CVE-2020-36158.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

• Xenial Stemcells
  • 456.x versions prior to 456.152
  • 621.x versions prior to 621.115
  • All other stemcells not listed.

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigations below. The Cloud Foundry project recommends upgrading the following releases:

• Xenial Stemcells
  • Upgrade 456.x versions to 456.152 or greater
  • Upgrade 621.x versions to 621.115 or greater
  • All other stemcells should be upgraded to the latest version available on bosh.io.

References

• USN Notice
• CVE-2021-3178
• CVE-2020-36158

History

2021-04-14: Initial vulnerability report published.