USN-5021-2: curl vulnerability
23896
17 March 2022
17 March 2022
CLOSED
MEDIUM
CVE-2021-22898,CVE-2021-22925
Severity
medium
Vendor
VMware Tanzu
Versions Affected
- Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
Description
USN-5021-1 fixed vulnerabilities in curl. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: Harry Sintonen and Tomas Hoger discovered that curl incorrectly handled TELNET connections when the -t option was used on the command line. Uninitialized data possibly containing sensitive information could be sent to the remote server, contrary to expectations. (CVE-2021-22898, CVE-2021-22925)
CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2021-22898, CVE-2021-22925
Affected VMware Products and Versions
Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.
- Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes
- All versions prior to 2.0.0
- Isolation Segment
- 2.7.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 456.236
- 2.8.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.208
- 2.9.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.208
- 2.10.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.208
- 2.11.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.208
- 2.12.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.208
- Operations Manager
- 2.9.x versions prior to 2.9.30
- 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.29
- VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
- 2.7.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 456.236
- 2.8.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.208
- 2.9.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.208
- 2.10.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.208
- 2.11.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.208
- 2.12.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.208
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:- Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes
- 2.0.0
- Isolation Segment
- 2.7.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 456.236 or greater
- 2.8.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.208 or greater
- 2.9.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.208 or greater
- 2.10.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.208 or greater
- 2.11.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.208 or greater
- 2.12.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.208 or greater
- Operations Manager
- 2.9.30
- 2.10.29
- VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
- 2.7.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 456.236 or greater
- 2.8.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.208 or greater
- 2.9.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.208 or greater
- 2.10.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.208 or greater
- 2.11.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.208 or greater
- 2.12.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.208 or greater
References
- https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2021-22898
- https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2021-22925
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5021-2
- https://cloudfoundry.org/blog/usn-5021-2
History
2022-03-17: Initial vulnerability report published.