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Security Bulletin: IBM Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) is affected by vulnerability in GNU C Library (CVE-2018-11236)

Created by Barb Foss on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/881992
881992

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) has addressed the following vulnerability in GNU C Library.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-11236
DESCRIPTION: GNU glibc is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds of checking by the pathname arguments in the realpath function in stdlib/canonicalize.c. By using specially-crafted pathname arguments, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/143578 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 Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) for System x & Flex Systems

1AOO

IBM Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) for BladeCenter Systems

1AOO

Remediation/Fixes

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

Product

Fix Version

IBM Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) for System x & Flex Systems
(ibm_fw_imm2_1aoo88b-7.20_anyos_noarch)

1AOO88B-7.20

IBM Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) for BladeCenter Systems
(ibm_fw_imm2_1aoo88b-7.20-bc_anyos_noarch)

1AOO88B-7.20-bc

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

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Change History

25 April 2019: Original 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.

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Document Information

Modified date:
25 April 2019

UID

ibm10881992

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