Security Bulletin
Summary
Vulnerabilities have been identified in bind package in ISC Bind affect IBM SmartCloud Provisioning for IBM Software Virtual Appliance.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2016-1286
DESCRIPTION: ISC BIND is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when parsing signature records for DNAME resource records. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger an assertion failure in resolver.c or db.c and cause the named process to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111390 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2016-2088
DESCRIPTION: ISC BIND is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in servers with cookie support enabled. By sending a response containing multiple DNS cookie options, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger an assertion failure.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111391 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2016-1285
DESCRIPTION: ISC BIND is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper handling of control channel input. By sending a specially crafted packet, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger an assertion failure in sexpr.c or alist.c and cause the named process to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111389 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
All releases of IBM SmartCloud Provisioning 2.1 for IBM Software Virtual Appliance
Workarounds and Mitigations
If you are running any release of IBM SmartCloud Provisioning 2.1 for IBM Software Virtual Appliance, contact IBM support.
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References
Change History
May 20 2016: Original Copy Published
July 08 2016: Updated Summary and Remediation Section
*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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Internal Use Only
CVE-Ids: CVE-2016-1286, CVE-2016-2088, CVE-2016-1285
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Document Information
Modified date:
17 June 2018
UID
swg2C1000146