USN-6237-1: curl vulnerabilities

Severity

Low

Vendor

Canonical Ubuntu

Description

Hiroki Kurosawa discovered that curl incorrectly handled validating certain certificate wildcards. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to spoof certain website certificates using IDN hosts. (CVE-2023-28321) Hiroki Kurosawa discovered that curl incorrectly handled callbacks when certain options are set by applications. This could cause applications using curl to misbehave, resulting in information disclosure, or a denial of service. (CVE-2023-28322) It was discovered that curl incorrectly handled saving cookies to files. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to create or overwrite files. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.10, and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-32001) Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6237-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: libcurl4-gnutls-dev – 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.19 libcurl4-openssl-dev – 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.19 libcurl3-gnutls – 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.19 libcurl4-doc – 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.19 libcurl3-nss – 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.19 libcurl4-nss-dev – 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.19 libcurl4 – 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.19 curl – 7.68.0-1ubuntu2.19 No subscription required

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2023-28321, CVE-2023-28322.

Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions

Severity is low unless otherwise noted.

• cflinuxfs4
  • All versions prior to 1.23.0
• Jammy Stemcells
  • 1.x versions prior to 1.179
  • All other stemcells not listed.
• CF Deployment
  • All versions with Jammy Stemcells prior to 1.179

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigations below.

The Cloud Foundry project recommends upgrading the following releases:

• cflinuxfs4
  • Upgrade all versions to 1.23.0 or greater
• Jammy Stemcells
  • Upgrade 1.x versions to 1.179 or greater
  • All other stemcells should be upgraded to the latest version available on bosh.io.
• CF Deployment
  • For all versions, upgrade Jammy Stemcells to 1.179 or greater

History

2024-03-18: Initial vulnerability report published.