Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in icu affects IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CVE-2014-9654)

Summary

IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) has addressed the following vulnerability in icu.

Vulnerability Details

Summary

IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) has addressed the following vulnerability in icu.

Vulnerability Details:

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-9654

Description: ICU could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by improper size limit checks when handling regular expressions. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially crafted data to execute arbitrary code on the system with elevated privileges or cause the application using ICU to crash.

CVSS Base Score: 5.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110456&gt; for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes:

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

Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):

None

References:

• Complete CVSS v3 Guide
• On-line Calculator v3

Related Information:
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement

None.

Change History
07 July 2016: Original Copy 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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