Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in busybox affects IBM NeXtScale Fan Power Controller (FPC) (CVE-2016-2147)

Vulnerability Details

Summary

IBM NeXtScale Fan Power Controller (FPC) has addressed the following vulnerability in busybox.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2016-2147

Description: BusyBox could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by multiple out of bounds write issues in dhcp client implementation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service.

CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111511 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes:

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

Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):

None

References:

• Complete CVSS v3 Guide
• On-line Calculator v3

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

Acknowledgement

None

Change History
30 November 2017: 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 Security Bulletin.

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