Security Bulletin: IBM Security Access Manager appliances are affected by vulnerabilities in OpenSSH (CVE-2015-5352, CVE-2015-6563, CVE-2015-6564)

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-5352
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSH could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an error when making connections after ForwardX11Timeout expired. If X11 connections are forwarded with ForwardX11Trusted=no, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass XSECURITY restrictions.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/104418 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2015-6563
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSH could allow a local attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the acceptance of extraneous username data in MONITOR_REQ_PAM_INIT_CTX requests by the monitor component in sshd. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct impersonation attacks.
CVSS Base Score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/105881 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:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2015-6564
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSH could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a use-after-free error in the mm_answer_pam_free_ctx function. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/105882 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)