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Security Bulletin: The Elastic Storage Server is affected by a vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Scale (CVE-2018-1782)

Created by Prayas Gupta on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/740171
740171

Security Bulletin


Summary

The Elastic Storage Server is affected by a vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Scale which could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a kernel panic on a node running GPFS by accessing a file that is stored on a GPFS file system with mmap, or by executing a crafted file stored on a GPFS file system. (CVE-2018-1782).

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-1782
DESCRIPTION: IBM GPFS allows a local, unprivileged user to cause a kernel panic on a node running GPFS by accessing a file that is stored on a GPFS file system with mmap, or by executing a crafted file stored on a GPFS file system.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/148805 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

The Elastic Storage Server 5.3.1  thru 5.3.1.1
 

Remediation/Fixes

For IBM Elastic Storage Server V5.3.1 thru 5.3.1.1, apply V5.3.2 available from FixCentral at:

https://www-945.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Software%20defined%20storage&product=ibm/StorageSoftware/IBM+Elastic+Storage+Server+(ESS)&release=5.3.0&platform=Linux+64-bit,pSeries&function=all

Notes:
If you are unable to upgrade to ESS 5.3.2, please contact IBM Service to obtain an efix:

- For IBM Elastic Storage Server 5.3.1 - 5.3.1.1, reference APAR IJ08204

 

To contact IBM Service, see http://www.ibm.com/planetwide/

 

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement

IBM acknowledges and thanks Ryan Adamson from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for reporting this security vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Scale.

*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

Review the IBM security bulletin disclaimer and definitions regarding your responsibilities for assessing potential impact of security vulnerabilities to your environment.

Internal Use Only

PR ID : 121523

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Document Information

Modified date:
27 November 2018

UID

ibm10740171

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