Severity

medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

• Cflinuxfs3
• Canonical Ubuntu 18.04
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Description

It was discovered that GNU C Library nscd daemon contained a stack-based buffer overflow. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2024-33599) It was discovered that GNU C Library nscd daemon did not properly check the cache content, leading to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2024-33600) It was discovered that GNU C Library nscd daemon did not properly validate memory allocation in certain situations, leading to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2024-33601) It was discovered that GNU C Library nscd daemon did not properly handle memory allocation, which could lead to memory corruption. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2024-33602) Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6804-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: glibc-doc - 2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm7 glibc-source - 2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm7 libc-bin - 2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm7 libc-dev-bin - 2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm7 libc6 - 2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm7 libc6-amd64 - 2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm7 libc6-armel - 2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm7 libc6-dev - 2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm7 libc6-dev-amd64 - 2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm7 libc6-dev-armel - 2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm7 libc6-dev-i386 - 2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm7 libc6-dev-s390 - 2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm7 libc6-dev-x32 - 2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm7 libc6-i386 - 2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm7 libc6-pic - 2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm7 libc6-s390 - 2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm7 libc6-x32 - 2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm7 locales - 2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm7 locales-all - 2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm7 multiarch-support - 2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm7 nscd - 2.23-0ubuntu11.3+esm7 Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro.

Fixed VMware Products and Versions

• Platform Automation Toolkit
• 4.4.32 or greater
• 5.0.25 or greater
• 5.1.2 or greater
• Tanzu Greenplum for Kubernetes
• 2.0.0 or greater
• CF Deployment
• 30.0.0 or greater
• Xenial Stemcells
• 621.969 or greater
• Operation Manager
• 2.10.75 or greater
• Operations Manager Image
• 2.10.75 or greater

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6804-1

https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/usn-6804-1

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=usn-6804-1

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/24746

History

2024-05-31: Initial vulnerability report published.