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Security Bulletin: IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) is affected by vulnerabilities in OpenSSH

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Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/734739
734739

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) has addressed the following vulnerabilities in OpenSSH.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-15906
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSH is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the process_open() function when in read-only mode. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to create zero-length files and cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/133128 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

 

CVEID: CVE-2016-10708
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSH is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference. By sending a specially crafted SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS message, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/117448 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:N/A:L)

 

CVEID: CVE-2016-10012
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSH could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by improper bounds checking in the shared memory manager. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/119831 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

 

CVEID: CVE-2008-1483
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSH could allow a local authenticated attacker to hijack forwarded X11 sessions, caused by an error in sshd when setting the DISPLAY environment variable. By listening to the same port used to forward the X11 session, a local attacker could obtain the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE and hijack other user''s sessions.
CVSS Base Score: 1.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41438 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Product

Affected Version

IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM)

2PET

Remediation/Fixes

Firmware fix versions are available on Fix Central:  http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/

 

Product

Fix Version

IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM)
(ibm_fw_cmm_2pet16d-2.5.13d_anyos_noarch)

2pet16d-2.5.13d

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

10 Oct 2018: 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.

Disclaimer

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Document Information

Modified date:
10 October 2018

UID

ibm10734739