Security Bulletin
Summary
PowerKVM is affected by vulnerabilities in openjpeg. IBM has now addressed these vulnerabilities.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2016-5139
DESCRIPTION: Google Chrome is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by pdfium. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 6.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/115759 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2016-5158
DESCRIPTION: Google Chrome is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by PDFium. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 6.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/116533 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2016-5159
DESCRIPTION: Google Chrome is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by PDFium. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 6.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/116534 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2016-7163
DESCRIPTION: OpenJPEG could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow in the opj_pi_create_decode function in pi.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted JP2 file, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 6.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/117141 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2016-9573
DESCRIPTION: OpenJPEG is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds read in j2k_to_image tool. By using a specially-crafted JPEG2000 file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash or possibly obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 4.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/125136 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2016-9675
DESCRIPTION: OpenJPEG is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking. By using a specially-crafted jpeg2000 image file, a remote authenticated attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120194 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/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 8.
Workarounds and Mitigations
none
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References
Change History
24 May 2017 - 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.
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Document Information
Modified date:
17 June 2018
UID
isg3T1025261