Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM PowerVC is impacted by OpenStack Nova information disclosure vulnerailities (CVE-2015-1850, CVE-2015-7548)
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2015-1850
DESCRIPTION: OpenStack Nova could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to provide input format to several calls of ""qemu-img convert"". By overwriting an image convert using a qcow2 backing file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to read arbitrary files from the host.
CVSS Base Score: 4.9
CVSS Temporal Score: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/103849 for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2015-7548
DESCRIPTION: OpenStack Nova could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error in instance snapshot. By overwriting the disk inside an instance using a malformed image and requesting a snapshot, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to read arbitrary files from the host.
CVSS Base Score: 5.500
CVSS Temporal Score: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109474 for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
Affected Products and Versions
PowerVC Standard Edition 1.2.3.0 through 1.2.3.3
PowerVC Standard Edition 1.3.0.0 through 1.3.0.1
Remediation/Fixes
For PowerVC 1.2.3, update to 1.2.3 FP3 and then apply the IT16325 interim fix from FixCentral:
http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/quickorder?product=ibm%2FOther+software%2FPowerVC&fixids=Security-Fix-1.2.3.3-PowerVC-RHEL-NOARCH-APAR-IT16325&source=SAR
For PowerVC 1.3.0, apply PowerVC 1.3.0 FP2 or later:
https://www-945.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=ibm~Other%2Bsoftware&product=ibm/Other+software/PowerVC&release=1.3.0.0&platform=All&function=all&source=fc
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Change History
28 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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Document Information
Modified date:
17 June 2018
UID
nas8N1021457