Security Bulletin: glibc vulnerability affects IBM Elastic Storage System (CVE-2021-27219)

Security Bulletin

Summary

IBM Elastic Storage System is shipped with GNU glibc, for which a fix is available for a security vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2021-27219
DESCRIPTION: GNOME GLib could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service, caused by an integer overflow in the g_bytes_new function. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to corrupt memory and cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/196782 for the current score.
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

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
IBM Elastic Storage System	6.0.0 - 6.0.2.1
IBM Elastic Storage System	6.1.0 - 6.1.1.0

Remediation/Fixes

IBM recommends that you fix this vulnerability by upgrading affected versions of IBM Elastic Storage System 3000, 3200 and 5000 to the following code levels or higher:

V6.1.1.1 or later,

https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Software%20defined%20storage&product=ibm/StorageSoftware/IBM+Elastic+Storage+Server+(ESS)&release=6.1.0&platform=All&function=all

V6.0.2.2 or later,

https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Software%20defined%20storage&product=ibm/StorageSoftware/IBM+Elastic+Storage+Server+(ESS)&release=6.0.0&platform=All&function=all

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

08 Jul 2021: 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.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Security Bulletin: glibc vulnerability affects IBM Elastic Storage System (CVE-2021-27219)