USN-6429-2: curl vulnerability

24214

04 December 2023

04 December 2023

CLOSED

LOW

CVE-2023-38546

Severity

low

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

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

Description

USN-6429-1 fixed a vulnerability in curl. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Original advisory details: It was discovered that curl incorrectly handled cookies when an application duplicated certain handles. A local attacker could possibly create a cookie file and inject arbitrary cookies into subsequent connections. (CVE-2023-38546) Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6429-2` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: libcurl4-gnutls-dev - 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.19+esm10 libcurl4-openssl-dev - 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.19+esm10 libcurl3-gnutls - 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.19+esm10 libcurl4-doc - 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.19+esm10 libcurl3-nss - 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.19+esm10 libcurl4-nss-dev - 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.19+esm10 libcurl3 - 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.19+esm10 curl - 7.47.0-1ubuntu2.19+esm10 Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2023-38546

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 2.11.41, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.730
    • 2.13.x versions prior to 2.13.26, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.730
    • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.19
    • 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.11+LTS-T
  • Operations Manager
    • 2.10.x versions prior to 2.10.63
  • VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
    • 2.11.x versions prior to 2.11.47, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.730
    • 2.13.x versions prior to 2.13.29, or later versions with Xenial Stemcells prior to 621.730
    • 3.0.x versions prior to 3.0.19
    • 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.11+LTS-T

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
    • 2.11.41, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.730 or greater
    • 2.13.26, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.730 or greater
    • 3.0.19
    • 4.0.11+LTS-T
  • Operations Manager
    • 2.10.63
  • VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
    • 2.11.47, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.730 or greater
    • 2.13.29, and upgrade Xenial Stemcells to 621.730 or greater
    • 3.0.19
    • 4.0.11+LTS-T

References

History

2023-12-04: Initial vulnerability report published.