Severity

medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 22.04

Description

It was discovered that libssh incorrectly handled the ProxyCommand and the ProxyJump features. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to inject malicious code into the command of the features mentioned through the hostname parameter. (CVE-2023-6004) It was discovered that libssh incorrectly handled return codes when performing message digest operations. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause libssh to crash, obtain sensitive information, or execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-6918) Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6592-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: libssh-gcrypt-dev - 0.9.3-2ubuntu2.5 libssh-4 - 0.9.3-2ubuntu2.5 libssh-gcrypt-4 - 0.9.3-2ubuntu2.5 libssh-dev - 0.9.3-2ubuntu2.5 libssh-doc - 0.9.3-2ubuntu2.5 No subscription required.

Fixed VMware Products and Versions

• Cflinuxfs4
• 1.67.0 or greater
• Operations Manager
• 3.0.24+LTS-T or greater
• Jammy Stemcells
• 1.351 or greater
• CF Deployment
• 30.0.0 or greater
• Isolation Segment
• 4.0.16+LTS-T or greater
• 5.0.6 or greater
• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
• 4.0.16+LTS-T or greater
• 5.0.6 or greater

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6592-1

https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/usn-6592-1

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/24667

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=usn-6592-1

History

2024-01-22: Initial vulnerability report published.