Severity

low

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 16.04

Description

It was discovered that man-db incorrectly handled permission changing operations in its daily cron job, and was therefore affected by a race condition. An attacker could possibly use this issue to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code.

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2015-1336

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is low unless otherwise noted.

• Isolation Segment
  • 2.7.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 456.252
  • 2.8.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.224
  • 2.9.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.224
  • 2.10.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.224
  • 2.11.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.224
  • 2.12.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.224
• Operations Manager
  • 2.9.x versions prior to 2.9.34
  • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.34
• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
  • 2.7.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 456.252
  • 2.8.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.224
  • 2.9.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.224
  • 2.10.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.224
  • 2.11.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.224
  • 2.12.x versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.224

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.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 456.252 or greater
  • 2.8.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.224 or greater
  • 2.9.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.224 or greater
  • 2.10.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.224 or greater
  • 2.11.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.224 or greater
  • 2.12.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.224 or greater
• Operations Manager
  • 2.9.34
  • 2.10.34
• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
  • 2.7.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 456.252 or greater
  • 2.8.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.224 or greater
  • 2.9.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.224 or greater
  • 2.10.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.224 or greater
  • 2.11.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.224 or greater
  • 2.12.x: Upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.224 or greater

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1336
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5334-1
• https://cloudfoundry.org/blog/usn-5334-1

History

2022-05-12: Initial vulnerability report published.