USN-5891-1: curl vulnerabilities

24196

22 May 2023

22 May 2023

CLOSED

MEDIUM

CVE-2023-23914,CVE-2023-23915,CVE-2023-23916

Severity

medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

  • Canonical Ubuntu 18.04
  • Canonical Ubuntu 22.04

Description

Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled HSTS support when multiple URLs are requested serially. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause curl to use unencrypted connections. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2023-23914) Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled HSTS support when multiple URLs are requested in parallel. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause curl to use unencrypted connections. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2023-23915) Patrick Monnerat discovered that curl incorrectly handled memory when processing requests with multi-header compression. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause curl to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2023-23916) Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-5891-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: libcurl4-gnutls-dev - 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.8 libcurl4-openssl-dev - 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.8 libcurl3-gnutls - 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.8 libcurl4-doc - 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.8 libcurl3-nss - 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.8 libcurl4-nss-dev - 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.8 libcurl4 - 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.8 curl - 7.81.0-1ubuntu1.8 No subscription required

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2023-23914, CVE-2023-23915, CVE-2023-23916

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

  • Platform Automation Toolkit
    • 4.4.x versions prior to 4.4.31
    • 5.0.x versions prior to 5.0.24
    • 5.1.x versions prior to 5.1.1
  • Isolation Segment
    • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.30
    • 2.12.x versions prior to 2.12.20
    • 2.13.x versions prior to 2.13.15
    • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.8, or later versions with Jammy Stemcells prior to 1.93
    • 4.0.x versions with Jammy Stemcells prior to 1.93
  • Operations Manager
    • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.5+LTS-T
  • VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
    • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.36
    • 2.12.x versions prior to 2.12.25
    • 2.13.x versions prior to 2.13.18
    • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.8, or later versions with Jammy Stemcells prior to 1.93
    • 4.0.x versions with Jammy Stemcells prior to 1.93

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
    • 4.4.31
    • 5.0.24
    • 5.1.1
  • Isolation Segment
    • 2.11.30
    • 2.12.20
    • 2.13.15
    • 3.0.8, and upgrade Jammy Stemcells to 1.93 or greater
    • 4.0.x: Upgrade Jammy Stemcells to 1.93 or greater
  • Operations Manager
    • 3.0.5+LTS-T
  • VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
    • 2.11.36
    • 2.12.25
    • 2.13.18
    • 3.0.8, and upgrade Jammy Stemcells to 1.93 or greater
    • 4.0.x: Upgrade Jammy Stemcells to 1.93 or greater

References

History

2023-05-22: Initial vulnerability report published.