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Security Bulletin: IBM Security Proventia Network Active Bypass is affected by glibc vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-6485)

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Summary

IBM Security Proventia Network Active Bypass has addressed the following vulnerabilities. (CVE-2018-6485)

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-6485
DESCRIPTION: GNU C Library is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an integer overflow in the implementation of the posix_memalign in memalign functions. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/138627 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Security 1G Network Active Bypass firmware version 1.x through 3.x firmware levels 1.0.849 through 3.30.10-37
IBM Security 10G Network Active Bypass firmware versions 1.x through 3.x firmware levels 1.0.1876 through 3.30.10-37

Remediation/Fixes

 

Product VRMF Remediation/First Fix
IBM Security Proventia Network Active Bypass 3.X Proventia 1G NAB Update 24 (fw 3.30.11)
IBM Security Proventia Network Active Bypass 3.X Proventia 10G NAB Update 21 (fw 3.30.11)



For IBM Security Proventia Network Active Bypass products at the following firmware versions:

  • IBM Security 1G Network Active Bypass firmware version 1.X firmware levels 1.0.849 through 3.30.4-12, 3.30.5-21, 3.30.7-23, 3.30.9-27, 3.30.10-37
  • IBM Security 10G Network Active Bypass firmware versions 1.X firmware levels 1.0.1876 through 3.30.5-21, 3.30.7-23, 3.30.9-27, 3.30.10-37


IBM recommends upgrading to 3.30.11, the supported firmware release of the product.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog


 

Change History

31 August 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.

Disclaimer

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Document Information

Modified date:
28 August 2018

UID

ibm10729421

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