EGI SVG Advisories

Advisory-SVG-CVE-2019-13132

Title:   EGI SVG 'ALERT' [TLP:WHITE] ZeroMQ Vulnerability
         [EGI-SVG-CVE-2019-13132]

Date:    2019-07-10
Updated:

Affected software and risk
==========================

Vulnerability concerning ZeroMQ

Package : ZeroMQ
CVE ID  : CVE-2019-13132

A vulnerability in ZeroMQ (>=4.0.0) has been announced, where a remote,
unauthenticated client may cause a stack overflow and overwrite the stack with
arbitrary data.  [R 1], [R 2], [R 3]

Actions required/recommended
============================

ZeroMQ is one of the supported messaging solutions in OpenStack. If any cloud
site is using ZeroMQ, they should update urgently, as should any site using
ZeroMQ for any other service.


Component installation information
==================================

For Ubuntu see [R 2]

For Debian see [R 3]

For SUSE see [R 4]

TLP and URL
===========

** WHITE information - Unlimited distribution
 - see https://go.egi.eu/tlp for distribution restrictions **
URL:   https://advisories.egi.eu/Advisory-SVG-CVE-2019-13132

Minor updates may be made without re-distribution to the sites


Comments
========

Comments or questions should be sent to svg-rat  at  mailman.egi.eu

If you find or become aware of another vulnerability which is relevant to EGI
you may report it by e-mail to

report-vulnerability at egi.eu

the EGI Software Vulnerability Group will take a look according to the
procedure defined in [R 5]

Note that this is undergoing revision to fully handle vulnerabilities in the
EOSC-hub era.


References
==========

[R 1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/08/6

[R 2] https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2019-13132.html

[R 3] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/zeromq3

[R 4] https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-13132/

[R 5] https://documents.egi.eu/public/ShowDocument?docid=3145

Credit
======

SVG was alerted to this vulnerability by Barbara Krasovec

Timeline
========

Yyyy-mm-dd  [EGI-SVG-2019-CVE-2019-13132]

2019-07-09 SVG alerted to this issue by Barbara Krasovec
2019-07-09 Acknowledgement from the EGI SVG to the reporter
2019-07-09 SVG decided to send an alert
2019-07-10 Alert sent to sites


Context
=======

This advisory has been prepared as part of the effort to fulfil EGI SVG's
purpose "To minimize the risk to the EGI infrastructure arising from software
vulnerabilities"

The risk is that assessed by the group, according to the EGI SVG issue handling
procedure [R 5]  in the context of how the software is used in the EGI
infrastructure. It is the opinion of the group, we do not guarantee it to be
correct.  The risk may also be higher or lower in other deployments depending
on how the software is used.

Others may re-use this information provided they:-

1) Respect the provided TLP classification

2) Credit the EGI https://www.egi.eu/ Software Vulnerability Group

Note that the SVG issue handling procedure is currently under review, to take
account of the increasing inhomogeneity of the EGI infrastructure and the
services in the EOSC-hub catalogue.

On behalf of the EGI SVG,