Security Bulletin: IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) is affected by vulnerability in NTP (CVE-2018-12327)

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-12327 DESCRIPTION: NTP is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by ntpq and ntpdc. By sending an overly long string argument, a local attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with elevated privileges or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/145120&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Product

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Affected Version

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IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM)

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2PET

Remediation/Fixes

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

Product

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Fix Version

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IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM)
(ibm_fw_cmm_2pet18a-2.5.14a_anyos_noarch)

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2pet18a-2.5.14a

Workarounds and Mitigations

None