Severity

medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 22.04
• Cflinuxfs4

Description

Charles Fol discovered that the GNU C Library iconv feature incorrectly handled certain input sequences. An attacker could use this issue to cause the GNU C Library to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6737-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: glibc-doc - 2.31-0ubuntu9.15 glibc-source - 2.31-0ubuntu9.15 libc-bin - 2.31-0ubuntu9.15 libc-dev-bin - 2.31-0ubuntu9.15 libc6 - 2.31-0ubuntu9.15 libc6-amd64 - 2.31-0ubuntu9.15 libc6-armel - 2.31-0ubuntu9.15 libc6-dev - 2.31-0ubuntu9.15 libc6-dev-amd64 - 2.31-0ubuntu9.15 libc6-dev-armel - 2.31-0ubuntu9.15 libc6-dev-i386 - 2.31-0ubuntu9.15 libc6-dev-s390 - 2.31-0ubuntu9.15 libc6-dev-x32 - 2.31-0ubuntu9.15 libc6-i386 - 2.31-0ubuntu9.15 libc6-lse - 2.31-0ubuntu9.15 libc6-pic - 2.31-0ubuntu9.15 libc6-prof - 2.31-0ubuntu9.15 libc6-s390 - 2.31-0ubuntu9.15 libc6-x32 - 2.31-0ubuntu9.15 locales - 2.31-0ubuntu9.15 locales-all - 2.31-0ubuntu9.15 nscd - 2.31-0ubuntu9.15 No subscription required.

Fixed VMware Products and Versions

• Cflinuxfs4
• 1.93.0 or greater
• Jammy Stemcells
• 1.439 or greater
• Operations Manager Image
• 3.0.28+LTS-T or greater
• Operations Manager
• 3.0.28+LTS-T or greater

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6737-1

https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/usn-6737-1

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=usn-6737-1

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/24724

History

2024-04-18: Initial vulnerability report published.