Severity

medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

Danilo Ramos discovered that rsync incorrectly handled memory when performing certain zlib deflating operations. An attacker could use this issue to cause rsync to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2018-25032

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

• Platform Automation Toolkit
  • 4.4.x versions prior to 4.4.29
  • 5.0.x versions prior to 5.0.22
• Isolation Segment
  • 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.44
  • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.24
  • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.13
  • 2.12.x versions prior to 2.12.7
• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
  • 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.49
  • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.31
  • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.19
  • 2.12.x versions prior to 2.12.12
  • 2.13.x versions prior to 2.13.4

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
  • 4.4.29
  • 5.0.22
• Isolation Segment
  • 2.7.44
  • 2.10.24
  • 2.11.13
  • 2.12.7
• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
  • 2.7.49
  • 2.10.31
  • 2.11.19
  • 2.12.12
  • 2.13.4

References

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-25032
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5359-1
• https://cloudfoundry.org/blog/usn-5359-1

History

2022-12-08: Initial vulnerability report published.