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Security Advisory

USN-4512-1: util-linux vulnerability

Severity

Negligible

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

It was discovered that the umount bash completion script shipped in util-linux incorrectly handled certain mountpoints. If a local attacker were able to create arbitrary mountpoints, another user could be tricked into executing arbitrary code when attempting to run the umount command with bash completion.

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2018-7738.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is negligible unless otherwise noted.

  • cflinuxfs3
    • All versions prior to 0.205.0
  • CF Deployment
    • All versions prior to 14.0.0

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 0.205.0 or greater
  • CF Deployment
    • Upgrade All versions to 14.0.0 or greater

History

2021-02-10: Initial vulnerability report published.

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