Severity

high

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

Orange Tsai discovered that the Samba vfs_fruit module incorrectly handled certain memory operations. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause Samba to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code as root. (CVE-2021-44142)

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2021-44142

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is high unless otherwise noted.

• Isolation Segment
  • 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.42
  • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.22
  • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.11
  • 2.12.x versions prior to 2.12.5
• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
  • 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.47
  • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.27
  • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.15
  • 2.12.x versions prior to 2.12.8

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:

• Isolation Segment
  • 2.7.42
  • 2.10.22
  • 2.11.11
  • 2.12.5
• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
  • 2.7.47
  • 2.10.27
  • 2.11.15
  • 2.12.8

References

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-44142
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5260-2
• https://cloudfoundry.org/blog/usn-5260-2

History

2022-03-17: Initial vulnerability report published.