Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in sudo affects IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System (CVE-2014-9680)

Summary

A security vulnerability has been discovered in sudo used with IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2014-9680**
DESCRIPTION:** Todd Miller sudo could allow a local attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to check the TZ environment variable prior to passing through the TZ parser. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service and launch further attacks on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/101202 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P)

Affected Products and Versions

Products: GX3002, GX4002, GX4004, GX4004-v2, GX5008, GX5008-v2, GX5108, GX5108-v2, GX5208, GX5208-v2, GX6116, GX7412, GX7412-10, GX7412-05, GX7800, GV200, GV1000

Firmware versions 4.6.2, 4.6.1, 4.6, 4.5, 4.4, and 4.3

Remediation/Fixes

Product

| VRMF| Remediation/First Fix
—|—|—
IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System | Firmware version 4.6.2| 4.6.2.0-ISS-ProvG-AllModels-System-FP0012
IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System | Firmware version 4.6.1| 4.6.1.0-ISS-ProvG-AllModels-System-FP0016
IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System | Firmware version 4.6| 4.6.0.0-ISS-ProvG-AllModels-System-FP0014
IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System | Firmware version 4.5| 4.5.0.0-ISS-ProvG-AllModels-System-FP0016
IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System | Firmware version 4.4| 4.4.0.0-ISS-ProvG-AllModels-System-FP0016
IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System | Firmware version 4.3| 4.3.0.0-ISS-ProvG-AllModels-System-FP0014

Workarounds and Mitigations

None