Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM Storage Protect Plus can be affected by vulnerabilities in Linux kernel and Apache Axis. Vulnerabilities include obtaining sensitive information, gaining elevated privileges, executing arbitrary commands, denial of service, and bypassing security restrictions, as described by the CVEs in the "Vulnerability Details" section. These vulnerabilities have been addressed.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2023-1989
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a use-after-free flaw in btsdio_remove function in drivers\bluetooth\btsdio.c. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service condition on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/252734 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-30456
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by the lack of consistency checks for CR0 and CR4 in arch/x86/kvm/vmx/nested.c. By sending a specially-crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/252441 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-0458
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel could allow a remote authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a speculative pointer dereference in the do_prlimit() function. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to leak the contents and obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253874 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2023-5178
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a use-after-free flaw in the nvmet_tcp_free_crypto function in the NVMe-oF/TCP subsystem. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268699 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-4206
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a use-after-free flaw in the net/sched: cls_route component. By sending a specially crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/265421 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-4208
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a use-after-free flaw in the net/sched: cls_u32 component. By sending a specially crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/265423 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-4128
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a use-after-free flaw in net/sched/cls_fw.c in classifiers. By sending a specially crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/263234 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-31436
DESCRIPTION: An out-of-bounds write in qfq_change_class in net/sched/sch_qfq.c in Linux Kernel could allow a local attacker to cause an unknown impact.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253946 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2023-1073
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel could allow a physical authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a memory corruption flaw in the human interface device (HID) subsystem. By using a specially crafted USB device , an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges or cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251322 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-31084
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a blocking operation when a task is in !TASK_RUNNING. In dvb_frontend_get_event, wait_event_interruptible is called in drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c. By sending a specially crafted request, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253581 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-2513
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a use-after-free flaw in the ext4 filesystem when handling extra inode size for extended attributes. By sending a specially crafted request, a local authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the system to crash.
CVSS Base score: 4.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/254670 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-4732
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a race condition between task migrating pages and another task calling exit_mmap to release those same pages getting invalid opcode BUG in include/linux/swapops.h in the memory management subsytem. A local authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 4.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/267576 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-35824
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel could allow a local authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a use-after-free flaw in the dm1105_remove function in drivers/media/pci/dm1105/dm1105.c. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service condition on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258284 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-3161
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a shift-out-of-bounds flaw in the fbcon_set_font() function. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257884 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-3611
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an out-of-bounds write flaw in the net/sched: sch_qfq component. By sending a specially crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/261424 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2021-43975
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel could allow a local authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an out-of-bounds write in hw_atl_utils_fw_rpc_wait in drivers/net/ethernet/aquantia/atlantic/hw_atl/hw_atl_utils.c. By sending a specially-crafted length value using an emulate networking device, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or crash the system.
CVSS Base score: 6.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/213673 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-1998
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in the spectre_v2_user_select_mitigation function in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/bugs.c in the Spectre Mitigation component . By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253511 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2022-40133
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a use-after-free flaw in the vmw_execbuf_tie_context function in drivers/gpu/vmxgfx/vmxgfx_execbuf.c. By sending a specially-crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/235642 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-3268
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds memory access flaw in the relay_file_read_start_pos function in kernel/relay.c in the relayfs. By sending a specially crafted request, a local authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the system to crash or obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258287 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-4132
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a use-after-free flaw in the siano smsusb module. By sending a specially crafted request, a local authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/262540 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-3212
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by NULL pointer dereference issue in the gfs2 file system. By sending a specially crafted request, a local authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a kernel panic.
CVSS Base score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258885 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2023-2163
DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an incorrect verifier pruning in BPF subsystem. By sending a specially crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges.
CVSS Base score: 8.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/266812 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2023-40743
DESCRIPTION: Apache Axis could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by improper input validation by the ServiceFactory.getService function. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial of service or perform SSRF attacks.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/265157 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM Storage Protect Plus | 10.1 |
Remediation/Fixes
| IBM Spectrum Protect Plus Affected Versions | Fixing Level | Platform | Link to Fix and Instructions |
| 10.1.0 - 10.1.15.3 | 10.1.16.0 | Linux | https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7109995 |
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
31 Jan 2024: Initial Publication
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Modified date:
31 January 2024
UID
ibm17111556