Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in systemd affects PowerKVM

Security Bulletin

Summary

PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in systemd. IBM has now addressed this vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-1049
DESCRIPTION: Systemd is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a race condition between .mount and .automount units. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/138105 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined

Affected Products and Versions

PowerKVM 3.1

Remediation/Fixes

Customers can update PowerKVM systems by using "yum update".

Fix images are made available via Fix Central. For version 3.1, see https://ibm.biz/BdHggw. This issue is addressed starting with v3.1.0.2 update 13.

Workarounds and Mitigations

none

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
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Change History

7 February 2018 - Initial Version

*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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Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in systemd affects PowerKVM