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Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in NTP Affect Power Hardware Management Console (CVE-2014-9297, CVE-2014-9298)

Created by Rejy V Sasidaran on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/666381
666381

Security Bulletin


Summary


NTP is used by Power Hardware Management Console (HMC). HMC has addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details


CVEID: CVE-2014-9297
DESCRIPTION: Network Time Protocol (NTP) Project NTP daemon (ntpd) could allow a remote attacker to conduct spoofing attacks, caused by insufficient entropy in PRNG. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to spoof the IPv6 address ::1 to bypass ACLs and launch further attacks on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100004 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N\/AC:L\/Au:N\/C:N\/I:P\/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2014-9298
DESCRIPTION: Network Time Protocol (NTP) Project NTP daemon (ntpd) could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the improper validation of the length value in extension field pointers. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100005 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N\/AC:L\/Au:N\/C:P\/I:N\/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions


Power HMC V8.1.0.0
Power HMC V8.2.0.0
Power HMC V8.3.0.0

Remediation/Fixes


The following fixes are available on IBM Fix Central at: http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/

Product
VRMF
APAR
Remediation/Fix
Power HMC
V8.8.1.0 SP2
MB03938
Apply eFix MH01550
Power HMC
V8.8.2.0 SP2
MB03873
Apply Service Pack 2 MH01488
Power HMC
V8.8.3.0
MB03939
Apply eFix MH01551

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

First Publish 2015-08-19

*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

Review the IBM security bulletin disclaimer and definitions regarding your responsibilities for assessing potential impact of security vulnerabilities to your environment.

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Document Information

Modified date:
22 September 2021

UID

nas8N1020857

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