Security Bulletin: IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module is affected by libxml2 vulnerabilities (CVE-2014-0191, CVE-2013-2877, CVE-2014-3660)

Vulnerability Details

Summary

Security vulnerabilities libxml2 affect IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module.

Vulnerability Details:

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0191

Description: Libxml2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the expansion of internal entities within the xmlParserHandlePEReference() function. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially-crafted XML document containing malicious attributes to consume all available CPU resources.

CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/93092 for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVE-ID: CVE-2013-2877

Description: Google Chrome is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds read in XML parsing. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.

CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/85531 for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3660

Description: Libxml2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the expansion of recursive entities. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially-crafted XML document processed by an application using libxml2 to consume all available CPU resources.

CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/97656 for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Affected products and versions

IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module Firmware v3.66K (BPET66K, BBET66K, BPEO66K) and previous versions are affected.

This applies to the following hardware products:

• BladeCenter Advanced Management Module, Option 25R5778
• BladeCenter T Advanced Management Module, Option 32R0835
• IBM BladeCenter(TM)-E: Type 1881, 7967, 8677
• IBM BladeCenter(TM)-H: Types 1886, 7989, 8852
• IBM BladeCenter(TM)-HT: Types 8740, 8750
• IBM BladeCenter(TM)-S: Types 1948, 7779, 8886
• IBM BladeCenter(TM)-T: Types 8720, 8730

Remediation/Fixes:

You should verify applying this fix does not cause any compatibility issues.

Fix Central: http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/

Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):

None

References:

• Complete CVSS Guide
• On-line Calculator V2
• OpenSSL Project vulnerability website

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

Acknowledgement

None

Change History
30 April 2015: Original Copy 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 Flash.

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