Security Bulletin
Summary
Bash vulnerabilities were disclosed in September 2014. These vulnerabilities have been referred to as “Bash Bug” or “Shellshock”. Bash is used by IBM FlashSystem 840 and V840 products.
Vulnerability Details
The following vulnerabilities are only exploitable by users who already have authenticated access to the system.
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-6271
DESCRIPTION: GNU Bash could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by an error when evaluating specially-crafted environment variables passed to it by the bash functionality. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to write to files and execute arbitrary commands on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/96153 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-7169
DESCRIPTION: GNU Bash could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by an incomplete fix related to malformed function definitions in the values of environment variables. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using attack vectors involving the ForceCommand feature in OpenSSH sshd, the mod_cgi and mod_cgid modules in the Apache HTTP Server to write to files and execute arbitrary commands on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/96209 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-7186
DESCRIPTION: GNU Bash could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an out-of-bounds memory access while handling redir_stack. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 4.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/96237 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-7187
DESCRIPTION: GNU Bash could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an off-by-one-error when handling deeply nested flow control constructs. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 4.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/96238 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
CVE-2014-6277
DESCRIPTION: GNU Bash could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an incomplete fix related to the failure to properly parse function definitions in the values of environment variables. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using attack vectors involving the ForceCommand feature in OpenSSH sshd, the mod_cgi and mod_cgid modules in the Apache HTTP Server to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/96686 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
CVE-2014-6278
DESCRIPTION: GNU Bash could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an incomplete fix related to the parsing of user scripts. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 10.0
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/96687 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Affected Products and Versions
IBM FlashSystem 840:
Machine Type 9840, model -AE1 (all supported releases before 1.1.2.7)
Machine Type 9843, model -AE1 (all supported releases before 1.1.2.7)
IBM FlashSystem V840:
Machine Type 9846, model -AE1 (all supported releases before 1.1.2.7)
Machine Type 9848, model -AE1 (all supported releases before 1.1.2.7)
Machine Type 9846, models -AC0, & -AC1 (all supported releases before 7.3.0.7)
Machine Type 9848, models -AC0, & -AC1 (all supported releases before 7.3.0.7)
Remediation/Fixes
IBM recommends that you fix this vulnerability by upgrading affected versions of IBM FlashSystem 840 and V840 systems to the following code level or higher:
for 840 & V840 machine types 9840, 9846, & 9848, –AE1 models: 1.1.2.7
for V840 machine types 9846 & 9848, –AC0 & -AC1 models: 7.3.0.7
IBM recommends that you review your entire environment to identify vulnerable releases of Bash including your Operating Systems and take appropriate mitigation and remediation actions. Please contact your Operating System provider for more information.
Workarounds and Mitigations
None known
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Acknowledgement
None
Change History
9 Oct 2014: Original Version Published
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Modified date:
17 February 2023
UID
ssg1S1004932