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Security Bulletin: IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) is affected by a vulnerabilty in ncurses (CVE-2017-13733)

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) has addressed the following vulnerability in ncurses.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-13733
DESCRIPTION: Ncurses is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an illegal address access in the fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c. By using a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/131061 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Product

Affected Version

IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM)

2PET

Remediation/Fixes

Firmware fix versions are available on Fix Central:  http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/

 

Product

Fix Version

IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM)
(ibm_fw_cmm_2pet16c-2.5.12c_anyos_noarch)

2pet16c-2.5.12c

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Lenovo Product Security Advisories

 

Change History

25 July 2018: Original version published

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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Document Information

Modified date:
25 July 2018

UID

ibm10718805

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