Severity

low

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 16.04
• Canonical Ubuntu 18.04
• Canonical Ubuntu 22.04

Description

It was discovered that OpenLDAP was not properly performing bounds checks when executing functions related to LDAP URLs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6197-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: ldap-utils - 2.4.42+dfsg-2ubuntu3.13+esm2 libldap2-dev - 2.4.42+dfsg-2ubuntu3.13+esm2 libldap-2.4-2 - 2.4.42+dfsg-2ubuntu3.13+esm2 slapd-smbk5pwd - 2.4.42+dfsg-2ubuntu3.13+esm2 slapd - 2.4.42+dfsg-2ubuntu3.13+esm2 Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2023-2953

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is low unless otherwise noted.

• Platform Automation Toolkit
  • 4.4.x versions prior to 4.4.32
  • 5.0.x versions prior to 5.0.25
  • 5.1.x versions prior to 5.1.2
• Isolation Segment
  • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.36, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.609
  • 2.13.x versions prior to 2.13.21, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.609
  • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.14
  • 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.5
• Operations Manager
  • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.60
• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
  • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.42, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.609
  • 2.13.x versions prior to 2.13.24, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.609
  • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.14
  • 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.5

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
  • 4.4.32
  • 5.0.25
  • 5.1.2
• Isolation Segment
  • 2.11.36, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.609 or greater
  • 2.13.21, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.609 or greater
  • 3.0.14
  • 4.0.5
• Operations Manager
  • 2.10.60
• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
  • 2.11.42, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.609 or greater
  • 2.13.24, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.609 or greater
  • 3.0.14
  • 4.0.5

References

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-2953
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6197-1

History

2023-08-02: Initial vulnerability report published.