Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM PureApplication System is vulnerable to Venom: "Virtualized Environment Neglected Operation Manipulation".
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2015-3456
DESCRIPTION: QEMU is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the Floppy Disk Controller (FDC) emulation. By sending specially crafted FDC commands, a guest operating system attacker with access to the FDC I/O ports could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with root privileges. Note: This vulnerability is also being called VENOM.
CVSS Base Score: 7.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/103116 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Affected Products and Versions
IBM PureApplication System V2.0
IBM PureApplication System V2.1
Remediation/Fixes
The IBM PureApplication System may be affected. Contact IBM Support for information regarding mitigation.
IBM recommends that you review your entire environment to identify vulnerable releases of the open-source hypervisor QEMU and virtualization infrastructures that utilize QEMU and take appropriate mitigation and remediation actions.
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
None
Change History
27 May 2015: 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.
Disclaimer
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Document Information
Modified date:
15 June 2018
UID
swg21903743