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Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in JasPer affect PowerKVM

Created by Scott Garfinkle on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/738771
738771

Security Bulletin


Summary

PowerKVM is affected by vulnerabilities in JasPer. IBM has now addressed these vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-1000050
DESCRIPTION: JasPer is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer exception in the jp2_encode function. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/130253 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2016-9396
DESCRIPTION: JasPer is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the JPC_NOMINALGAIN function in jpc_t1cod.c. By using unspecified vectors, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger an assertion failure.
CVSS Base Score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/123690 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

PowerKVM 3.1

Remediation/Fixes

Customers can update PowerKVM systems by using "yum update".

Fix images are made available via Fix Central. For version 3.1, see https://ibm.biz/BdHggw. This issue is addressed starting with v3.1.0.2 update 16.

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

Change History

28 September 2018 - Initial Version

*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

Review the IBM security bulletin disclaimer and definitions regarding your responsibilities for assessing potential impact of security vulnerabilities to your environment.

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 December 2018

UID

ibm10738771

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