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USN-3755-1: GD vulnerabilities

USN-3755-1: GD vulnerabilities

Severity

Medium

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 14.04
  • Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

It was discovered that GD incorrectly handled certain images. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-1000222)

It was discovered that GD incorrectly handled certain GIF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2018-5711)

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs2 prior to 1.234.0
  • All versions of Cloud Foundry cflinuxfs3 prior to 0.17.0

Mitigation

OSS users are strongly encouraged to follow one of the mitigations below:

  • The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with cflinuxfs2 version 1.234.0 or later.
  • The Cloud Foundry project recommends that Cloud Foundry deployments run with cflinuxfs3 version 0.17.0 or later.

References

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Cloud Foundry Foundation Security Team, AUTHOR

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