USN-5800-1: Heimdal vulnerabilities

23759

22 May 2023

22 May 2023

CLOSED

MEDIUM

CVE-2021-44758,CVE-2022-3437,CVE-2022-42898,CVE-2022-44640

Severity

medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
  • Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

It was discovered that Heimdal incorrectly handled certain SPNEGO tokens. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2021-44758) Evgeny Legerov discovered that Heimdal incorrectly handled memory when performing certain DES decryption operations. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-3437) Greg Hudson discovered that Kerberos PAC implementation used in Heimdal incorrectly handled certain parsing operations. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-42898) It was discovered that Heimdal's KDC did not properly handle certain error conditions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-44640) Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-5800-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: libhcrypto4-heimdal - 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3 libwind0-heimdal - 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3 libroken18-heimdal - 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3 libgssapi3-heimdal - 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3 heimdal-kcm - 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3 libhdb9-heimdal - 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3 libasn1-8-heimdal - 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3 libsl0-heimdal - 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3 libkadm5clnt7-heimdal - 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3 heimdal-kdc - 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3 libkdc2-heimdal - 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3 heimdal-servers - 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3 libheimntlm0-heimdal - 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3 heimdal-docs - 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3 libheimbase1-heimdal - 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3 libkrb5-26-heimdal - 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3 libotp0-heimdal - 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3 heimdal-dev - 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3 libkafs0-heimdal - 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3 libhx509-5-heimdal - 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3 heimdal-multidev - 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3 libkadm5srv8-heimdal - 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3 heimdal-clients - 1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4ubuntu1.16.04.1+esm3 Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2021-44758, CVE-2022-3437, CVE-2022-42898, CVE-2022-44640

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • Platform Automation Toolkit
    • 4.4.x versions prior to 4.4.31
    • 5.0.x versions prior to 5.0.24
  • Isolation Segment
    • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.27, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.401
    • 2.12.x versions prior to 2.12.17, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.401
    • 2.13.x versions prior to 2.13.12, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.401
    • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.7
  • Operations Manager
    • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.53
  • VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
    • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.33, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.401
    • 2.12.x versions prior to 2.12.22, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.401
    • 2.13.x versions prior to 2.13.15, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.401
    • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.7

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigation below. On the Tanzu Network product page for each release, check the Depends On section and/or Release Notes for this information. Releases that have fixed this issue include:
  • Platform Automation Toolkit
    • 4.4.31
    • 5.0.24
    • 5.1.0
  • Isolation Segment
    • 2.11.27, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.401 or greater
    • 2.12.17, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.401 or greater
    • 2.13.12, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.401 or greater
    • 3.0.7
    • 4.0.0+LTS-T
  • Operations Manager
    • 2.10.53
  • VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
    • 2.11.33, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.401 or greater
    • 2.12.22, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.401 or greater
    • 2.13.15, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.401 or greater
    • 3.0.7
    • 4.0.0+LTS-T

References

History

2023-05-22: Initial vulnerability report published.