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Security Bulletin: PowerKVM is affected by two Qemu vulnerabilities

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Security Bulletin


Summary

PowerKVM is affected by two Qemu vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-3214
DESCRIPTION: QEMU could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an out-of-bounds memory access in the pit_ioport_read function. If QEMU PIT emulation is enabled, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to corrupt memory and execute arbitrary code on the system or obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 4.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/103911 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2015-4037
DESCRIPTION: QEMU is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by insecure temporary file use in /net/slirp.c. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 4.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/103526 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)

Affected Products and Versions

PowerKVM 2.1

Remediation/Fixes

Fix is made available via Fix Central (https://ibm.biz/BdEnT8) in 2.1.1 build 58 and all later builds and fix packs. For systems currently running fix levels of PowerKVM prior to 2.1.1, please see http://download4.boulder.ibm.com/sar/CMA/OSA/05e4c/0/README for prerequisite fixes and instructions. Customers can also update from 2.1.1 (GA and later levels) by using "yum update".

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

17 July 2015 - Initial version

*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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Document Information

Modified date:
17 June 2018

UID

isg3T1022519

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