Overview
A preview of some things to come for the Ubuntu Security Podcast plus we
cover security updates for Samba, uriparser, libmodbus, MariaDB, Mailman
and more.
This week in Ubuntu Security Updates
38 unique CVEs addressed
[USN-5174-1] Samba vulnerabilities [00:58]
- 4 CVEs addressed in Bionic (18.04 LTS)
- Few weeks ago published Samba updates for a range of vulns - mentioned in
Episode 139 the difficulties involved in patching older Samba versions
like 4.7.6 as used in Ubuntu 18.04 - backports of patches for the more
severe vulnerabilities including the ability for authenticated attackers
to escalate privileges to root on domain machines and others
[USN-5142-2] Samba regressions [02:06]
- 9 CVEs addressed in Focal (20.04 LTS), Hirsute (21.04), Impish (21.10)
- Original upstream patches caused a bunch of regressions - once upstream
subsequently fixed these, we then updated our backports to include those
regression fixes
- How soon to ship vuln fixes?
[USN-5171-1] Long Range ZIP vulnerabilities [03:22]
- 9 CVEs addressed in Bionic (18.04 LTS)
- Compression tool optimised to achieve better performance on larger files
- Results of fuzzing by various researchers over time - AFL
- 4 UAFs, 2 stack buffer overflows, 2 infinite loop, 1 heap buffer overflow
[USN-5172-1] uriparser vulnerabilities [03:56]
- 4 CVEs addressed in Bionic (18.04 LTS)
- More fuzzing results -> Google AutoFuzz - seems to manage oss-fuzz etc
- OOB write, integer overflow, OOB read, NULL ptr deref
[USN-5173-1] libmodbus vulnerabilities [04:36]
- 2 CVEs addressed in Bionic (18.04 LTS)
- 1 vuln originally - OOB read on certain input - patch for this however
contained a typo which then introduced a second vuln on a subset of the
original input - second CVE assigned for that - both now fixed
[USN-5170-1] MariaDB vulnerability [05:13]
- 1 CVEs addressed in Focal (20.04 LTS), Hirsute (21.04), Impish (21.10)
- Latest upstream point releases:
- 10.5.13 -> 21.04, 21.10
- 10.3.32 -> 20.04
- As usual not much details on the vuln (MariaDB fork of MySQL, maintained
by Oracle who don’t provide a lot of specific details in their
vulnerability reports)
[USN-5178-1] Django vulnerability [06:04]
- 1 CVEs addressed in Focal (20.04 LTS), Hirsute (21.04), Impish (21.10)
- Failed to handle URLs with embedded trailing newlines - newline would
cause the URL to not match the existing URL path-based access controls so
could bypass those
[USN-5179-1] BusyBox vulnerabilities [06:33]
- 10 CVEs addressed in Bionic (18.04 LTS), Focal (20.04 LTS), Hirsute (21.04), Impish (21.10)
- Busybox implements a lot of standard unix utilities in a single binary
- UAF / OOB write when decompressing crafted gzip files
- Heap OOB on when decompressing crafted lzma
- Lots of UAFs in awk impl
[USN-5180-1] Mailman vulnerability [07:37]
- 1 CVEs addressed in Bionic (18.04 LTS)
- Wouldn’t validate that a CSRF token used for admin pages was actually
issued for that context - so a regular list user could take their own
CSRF token, craft a URL for the admin user with this token and if the
admin user visited that then they could evade the inteded CSRF
protections - so could say change the admindb password etc
[USN-5168-4] NSS regression [08:47]
- 1 CVEs addressed in Trusty ESM (14.04 ESM), Xenial ESM (16.04 ESM)
- Typo in backported patch could cause NSS to fail in some circumstances
and cause an SSL session to fail (DoS)
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Preview of some upcoming content and changes [09:26]
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