USN-5189-1: GLib vulnerability

23935

17 March 2022

17 March 2022

CLOSED

MEDIUM

CVE-2021-3800

Severity

medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
  • Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

It was discovered that GLib incorrectly handled certain environment variables. An attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges.

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2021-3800

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • Platform Automation Toolkit
    • 4.4.x versions prior to 4.4.27
    • 5.0.x versions prior to 5.0.20
  • Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes
    • All versions prior to 2.0.0
  • Isolation Segment
    • 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.41, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 456.220
    • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.21, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.192
    • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.10, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.192
    • 2.12.x versions prior to 2.12.4, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.192
  • Operations Manager
    • 2.8.x versions prior to 2.8.19
    • 2.9.x versions prior to 2.9.26
    • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.25
  • VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
    • 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.46, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 456.220
    • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.26, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.192
    • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.14, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.192
    • 2.12.x versions prior to 2.12.7, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.192

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
    • 4.4.27
    • 5.0.20
  • Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes
    • 2.0.0
  • Isolation Segment
    • 2.7.41, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 456.220 or greater
    • 2.10.21, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.192 or greater
    • 2.11.10, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.192 or greater
    • 2.12.4, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.192 or greater
  • Operations Manager
    • 2.8.19
    • 2.9.26
    • 2.10.25
  • VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
    • 2.7.46, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 456.220 or greater
    • 2.10.26, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.192 or greater
    • 2.11.14, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.192 or greater
    • 2.12.7, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.192 or greater

References

History

2022-03-17: Initial vulnerability report published.