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Security Bulletin: IBM Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot is affected by vulnerabilities in sudo.

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot has addressed the following vulnerabilities in sudo.

Vulnerability Details

Summary

IBM Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot has addressed the following vulnerabilities in sudo.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-7032

Description: Sudo could allow a local authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by the bypass of the sudo noexec restriction. By running an application via sudo executed system() or popen() C library functions with a user supplied argument, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges.

CVSS Base Score: 6.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/119500 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2016-7076

Description: Sudo could allow a local authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by the bypass of the sudo noexec restriction. By running an application via sudo executed wordexp() C library function with a user supplied argument, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges.

CVSS Base Score: 6.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/119502 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected products and versions

Product Version
IBM Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot 9.6

Remediation/Fixes

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

Product Fix Version
IBM Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot
(ibm_fw_dsa_dsyte2w-9.65)
dsyte2w-9.65

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.

References

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

Acknowledgement

None.

Change History
15 November, 2017: Original Version Published

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Document Location

Worldwide

Operating System

BladeCenter:Operating system independent / None

System x:Operating system independent / None

PureFlex System and Flex System:Operating system independent / None

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Document Information

Modified date:
30 January 2019

UID

ibm1MIGR-5099647