Security Bulletin
Summary
SmartCloud Entry is vulerable to Spice-server vulnerabilities. Attackers could exploit them to cause improper bounds checking by smartcard interaction or bypass security restrictions
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2016-0749
DESCRIPTION: Red Hat spice is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by smartcard interaction. By connecting to a guest VM, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the host QEMU-KVM process.
CVSS Base Score: 9.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/113902 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2016-2150
DESCRIPTION: Red Hat spice could allow a remote attacker from within the local network to bypass security restrictions, caused by a memory access error when handling certain guests. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially crafted primary surface parameters to read from and write to arbitrary memory locations on the host.
CVSS Base Score: 5.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/113901 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)
Affected Products and Versions
IBM SmartCloud Entry 3.2 through Appliance fix pack 21
Remediation/Fixes
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Product | VRMF | APAR | Remediation/First Fix |
| IBM SmartCloud Entry | 3.2 | None | IBM SmartCloud Entry 3.2.0 Appliance fix pack 22: http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/quickorder?product=ibm%2FOther+software%2FIBM+SmartCloud+Entry&fixids=3.2.0.4-IBM-SCE_APPL-FP22&source=SAR |
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Change History
8 September 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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Document Information
Modified date:
18 July 2020
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