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Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in glibc affects IBM System Networking RackSwitches (CVE-2013-7424)

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Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/867740
867740

Security Bulletin


Summary

A GNU C Library (glibc) vulnerability affects IBM System Networking RackSwitches. The IBM System Networking RackSwitches listed below have addressed the CVE.

Vulnerability Details

Summary

A GNU C Library (glibc) vulnerability affects IBM System Networking RackSwitches. The IBM System Networking RackSwitches listed below have addressed the CVE.

Vulnerability Details

CVE-ID: CVE-2013-7424

Description: The GNU C Library (glibc) could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an invalid free error in the getaddrinfo() function when used with the AI_IDN flag. An attacker able to make an application call this function could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.

CVSS Base Score: 5.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/101073 for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Affected products and versions

Product Affected version Fixed version
IBM RackSwitch G8052 (G8052-7.11.4.0.zip) 7.11.3.0 7.11.4.0
IBM RackSwitch G8052 (G8052-7.9.14.0.zip) 7.9.13.0 7.9.14.0
IBM RackSwitch G8124/G8124E (G8124_G8124E-7.11.4.0.zip) 7.11.3.0 7.11.4.0
IBM RackSwitch G8124/G8124E (G8124_G8124E-7.9.14.0.zip) 7.9.13.0 7.9.14.0
IBM RackSwitch G8264 (G8264-7.11.4.0.zip) 7.11.3.0 7.11.4.0
IBM RackSwitch G8264 (G8264-7.9.14.0.zip) 7.9.13.0 7.9.14.0
IBM RackSwitch G8264T (G8264T-7.9.14.0.zip) 7.9.13.0 7.9.14.0
IBM RackSwitch G8316 (G8316-7.9.14.0.zip) 7.9.13.0 7.9.14.0

Remediation/Fixes

Firmware updates are available at IBM Fix Central: http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/

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

Reference

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

Change History
20 August 2015: Original Copy Published

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Document Location

Worldwide

Operating System

System Management software:Operating system independent / None

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Document Information

Modified date:
30 January 2019

UID

ibm1MIGR-5098567