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Security Bulletin: TS3000 (TSSC/IMC) is affected by two issues for glibc (CVE-2015-1781, CVE-2013-7423 )

Created by Brett Dennis on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/690485
690485

Security Bulletin


Summary

The Total Storage System Console/TS4500 Integrated Management Console is affected by two vulnerabilities in the glibc library.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2013-7423
DESCRIPTION: GNU glibc could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the writing of DNS queries to random file descriptors under high load by the getaddrinfo() function. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 1.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/100647 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2015-1781
DESCRIPTION: GNU C Library (glibc) is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the gethostbyname_r() and other related functions. By sending a specially-crafted argument, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system elevated privileges or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/102500 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Affected Products and Versions

TSSC 7.4.X

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to TSSC 7.5.X. Please contact IBM support to obtain the fix.

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

15 May 2015 Original version published
19 May 2015 Updated CVE IDs and added link to fix

*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

ssg1S1005255

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