Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM SmartCloud Provisioning 2.1 for IBM Software Virtual Appliance is vulnerable to Venom: Virtualized Environment Neglected Operation Manipulation (CVE-2015-3456).
Vulnerability Details
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-3456
DESCRIPTION: Open Source QEMU (Quick Emulator) is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, which is caused by improper bounds checking by the Floppy Disk Controller (FDC) emulation. By sending specially crafted FDC commands, a guest operating system attacker with access to the FDC I/O ports might overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with root privileges.
Note: This vulnerability is also being called VENOM.
CVSS Base Score: 7.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/103116 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Affected Products and Versions
IBM SmartCloud Provisioning 2.1 for IBM Software Virtual Appliance up to interim fix 5
Remediation/Fixes
If you are running IBM SmartCloud Provisioning 2.1 for IBM Software Virtual Appliance, contact IBM support.
See the latest IBM Cloud Orchestrator fix release on IBM Fix Central.
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Change History
Original : June 12, 2015
Updated version: July 20, 2015
*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.
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Document Information
Modified date:
17 June 2018
UID
swg21962589