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Security Bulletin: IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM) is affected by vulnerabilities in python (CVE-2018-1061 CVE-2018-1060 CVE-2016-5636)

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Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/874892
874892

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Advanced Management Module (AMM) has addressed the following vulnerabilities in python.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-1061
DESCRIPTION: Python is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by catastrophic backtracking in the difflib.IS_LINE_JUNK method. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/145115 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2018-1060
DESCRIPTION: Python is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by catastrophic backtracking in the pop3lib''s apop() method. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/145116 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2016-5636
DESCRIPTION: zipimport module for Python is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the get_data() function in zipimport.c. A remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/114309 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Product

Affected Version

IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM)
 
 BPET

IBM BladeCenter T Advanced Management Module (AMM)
 

 BBET

Remediation/Fixes

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

Product

Affected Version

IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM)
(ibm_fw_amm_bpet68l-3.68l_anyos_noarch)
 bpet68l-3.68l

IBM BladeCenter T Advanced Management Module (AMM)
(ibm_fw_amm_bbet68l-3.68l_anyos_noarch)

 bbet68l-3.68l

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Lenovo Product Security Advisories

Change History

15 April 2019: Initial version 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.

Disclaimer

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Document Information

Modified date:
15 April 2019

UID

ibm10874892

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