Severity

medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 22.04

It was discovered that GNU binutils incorrectly handled certain COFF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-38533) It was discovered that GNU binutils was not properly performing bounds checks in several functions, which could lead to a buffer overflow. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service, expose sensitive information or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-4285, CVE-2020-19726, CVE-2021-46174) It was discovered that GNU binutils contained a reachable assertion, which could lead to an intentional assertion failure when processing certain crafted DWARF files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-35205) Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-6544-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: binutils-dev - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-arm-linux-gnueabihf - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-hppa64-linux-gnu - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-ia64-linux-gnu - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-multiarch - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-x86-64-kfreebsd-gnu - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-riscv64-linux-gnu - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-m68k-linux-gnu - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-for-build - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-s390x-linux-gnu - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-x86-64-linux-gnu - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-multiarch-dev - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-i686-gnu - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 libctf-nobfd0 - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-for-host - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-doc - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-sh4-linux-gnu - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 libctf0 - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-source - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-i686-linux-gnu - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-common - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-x86-64-linux-gnux32 - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-i686-kfreebsd-gnu - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-powerpc64le-linux-gnu - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-powerpc64-linux-gnu - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-hppa-linux-gnu - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-sparc64-linux-gnu - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 libbinutils - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-arm-linux-gnueabi - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-alpha-linux-gnu - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils-powerpc-linux-gnu - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 binutils - 2.34-6ubuntu1.7 No subscription required.

Fixed and Unaffected VMware Products and Versions

• Cflinuxfs4
• 1.59.0 or greater
• Jammy Stemcells
• 1.327 or greater
• Operation Manager
• 3.0.22+LTS-T or greater
• Isolation Segment
• 4.0.15+LTS-T or greater
• 5.0.5 or greater
• 6.0.x unaffected
• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs
• 4.0.15+LTS-T or greater
• 5.0.6 or greater
• 6.0.x unaffected
• Redis for Pivotal Platform
• 3.4.x unaffected
• VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition
• 2.3.x unaffected

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6544-1

https://www.cloudfoundry.org/blog/usn-6544-1

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=usn-6544-1

https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/24795

History

2023-12-11: Initial vulnerability report published.