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USN-5821-1: wheel vulnerability

Severity

Medium

Vendor

VMware Tanzu

Versions Affected

• Canonical Ubuntu 18.04

Description

Sebastian Chnelik discovered that wheel incorrectly handled certain file names when validated against a regex expression. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. Update Instructions: Run `sudo pro fix USN-5821-1` to fix the vulnerability. The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: python-wheel - 0.30.0-0.2ubuntu0.1 python-wheel-common - 0.30.0-0.2ubuntu0.1 python3-wheel - 0.30.0-0.2ubuntu0.1 No subscription required

CVEs contained in this USN include: CVE-2022-40898

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.

• Platform Automation Toolkit
  • 4.0.x versions prior to 4.0.13
  • 4.1.x versions prior to 4.1.13
  • 4.2.x versions prior to 4.2.8
  • 4.3.x versions prior to 4.3.5

Mitigation

Users of affected products are strongly encouraged to follow the mitigation below. On the Tanzu Network product page for each release, check the Depends On section and/or Release Notes for this information. Releases that have fixed this issue include:

• Platform Automation Toolkit
  • 4.0.13
  • 4.1.13
  • 4.2.8
  • 4.3.5

References

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-40898
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5821-1

History

2023-04-13: Initial vulnerability report published.