Security Bulletin
Summary
PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in gnupg2. IBM has now addressed this vulnerability.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2018-12020
DESCRIPTION: GnuPG could allow a remote attacker to conduct spoofing attacks, caused by the improper handling of the original filename during decryption and verification actions in mainproc.c. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to spoof the output that GnuPG sends on file descriptor 2 to other programs that use the --status-fd 2 option.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/144556 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
Affected Products and Versions
PowerKVM v3.1
Remediation/Fixes
Customers can update PowerKVM systems by using "yum update".
Fix images are made available via Fix Central. See https://ibm.biz/BdHggw. This issue is addressed starting with v3.1.0.2 update 15.
Workarounds and Mitigations
none
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References
Change History
9 August 2018 - 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:
26 September 2018
UID
ibm10720353