Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM SmartCloud Provisioning and SmartCloud Provisioning for Software Virtual Appliaance ships with nginx. A denial of service vulnerability has been identified in nginx (CVE-2016-4450).
Vulnerability Details
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-4450
Description: nginx is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference error in ngx_chain_to_iovec(). By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the worker process to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.300
CVSS Temporal Score: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/113746 for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
Affected Products and Versions
All releases of IBM SmartCloud Provisioning 2.1 and IBM SmartCloud Provisioning V2.1 for IBM Software Virtual Appliance.
Remediation/Fixes
None
Workarounds and Mitigations
If you are running any release of IBM SmartCloud Provisioning contact IBM support.
Please note that product software support discontinuance is approaching as per IBM Withdrawal Announcement 916-016.
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References
Change History
10 July 2016: Original Version Published
*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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Internal Use Only
CVE-2016-4450
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Document Information
Modified date:
17 June 2018
UID
swg2C1000165