Severity

high

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

Enrico Barberis, Pietro Frigo, Marius Muench, Herbert Bos, and Cristiano Giuffrida discovered that hardware mitigations added by Intel to their processors to address Spectre-BTI were insufficient. A local attacker could potentially use this to expose sensitive information.

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2022-0001, CVE-2022-0002

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is high unless otherwise noted.

• Platform Automation Toolkit
  • 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.13
  • 4.1.x versions prior to 4.1.13
  • 4.2.x versions prior to 4.2.8
  • 4.3.x versions prior to 4.3.5
• Isolation Segment
  • 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.43
  • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.23
  • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.12
  • 2.12.x versions prior to 2.12.6
• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
  • 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.48
  • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.28
  • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.16
  • 2.12.x versions prior to 2.12.9

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
  • 4.0.13
  • 4.1.13
  • 4.2.8
  • 4.3.5
• Isolation Segment
  • 2.7.43
  • 2.10.23
  • 2.11.12
  • 2.12.6
• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
  • 2.7.48
  • 2.10.28
  • 2.11.16
  • 2.12.9

References

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0001
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-0002
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5319-1
• https://cloudfoundry.org/blog/usn-5319-1

History

2022-05-12: Initial vulnerability report published.