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Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in Red Hat® Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server shipped with PurePower Integrated Manager (PPIM)

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Summary

RHEL Server is shipped as a component of PPIM. Information about a security vulnerability affecting RHEL Server has been published in a Red Hat errata.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2018-1000876
DESCRIPTION:   binutils version 2.32 and earlier contains a Integer Overflow vulnerability in objdump, bfd_get_dynamic_reloc_upper_bound,bfd_canonicalize_dynamic_reloc that can result in Integer overflow trigger heap overflow. Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.. This attack appear to be exploitable via Local. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in after commit 3a551c7a1b80fca579461774860574eabfd7f18f.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/154802 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Principal Product and Version(s)

Affected product remediation
  • PurePower Integrated Manager Appliance 1.1.0, 1.1.0.1, 1.1.0.2, 1.2.0, 1.2.0.1, 1.2.0.2, 1.2.0.3, 1.2.0.4
  • PurePower Integrated Manager Service Appliance 1.1.0, 1.1.0.1, 1.1.0.2, 1.2.0, 1.2.0.1, 1.2.0.2, 1.2.0.3, 1.2.0.4
  • PurePower Integrated Manager Power VC Appliance 1.1.0, 1.1.0.1, 1.1.0.2, 1.2.0, 1.2.0.1, 1.2.0.2, 1.2.0.3, 1.2.0.4
  • PurePower Integrated Manager KVM Host 1.1.0 , 1.1.0.1, 1.1.0.2, 1.2.0, 1.2.0.1, 1.2.0.2, 1.2.0.3, 1.2.0.4
Red Hat RHEL Server (v.7) errata:RHSA-2019:2075

Remediation/Fixes

Follow the instructions in the Red Hat errata listed above for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server.

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

03 Dec 2019: Initial Publication

*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 Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
20 December 2019

Initial Publish date:
03 December 2019

UID

ibm11119219

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