Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in glibc affect IBM Flex System Manager(FSM) (CVE-2013-7423, CVE-2014-7817, CVE-2014-9402, CVE-2015-1472)

Vulnerability Details

Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in glibc that is used by IBM Flex System Manager.

Content

Vulnerability Details:

CVE-ID: 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: 1.20
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100647 for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-7817

Description: GNU C Library (glibc) could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the sys tem, caused by an error in the wordexp() function. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on the system.

CVSS Base Score: 4.60
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98852 for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-9402

Description: glibc is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the getanswer_r() function. If the DNS backend is activated, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to enter into an infinite loop.

CVSS Base Score: 4.30
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99289 for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-1472

Description: GNU glibc is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by stdio-common/vfscanf.c. By sending an overly long string, a local attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service.

CVSS Base Score: 4.60
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100635 for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Affected products and versions

• Flex System Manager 1.1.x.x
• Flex System Manager 1.2.0.x
• Flex System Manager 1.2.1.x
• Flex System Manager 1.3.0.x
• Flex System Manager 1.3.1.x
• Flex System Manager 1.3.2.x
• Flex System Manager 1.3.3.x
• Flex System Manager 1.3.4.x

Remediation/Fixes:

Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):

None

Reference:

• Complete CVSS Guide
• On-line Calculator V2

Related Information:
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement

None

Change History
06 April 2015: Original Copy Published
08 October 2015: Added 1.3.3
12 October 2015: Added 1.3.4

* 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 Flash.

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