Security Bulletin: IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System is affected by krb5 vulnerabilities (CVE-2014-4341, CVE-2013-1418 )

Summary

Security vulnerabilities have been discovered in krb5 used with IBM Security Intrusion Prevention System.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2014-4341**
DESCRIPTION:** MIT Kerberos is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference. By injecting invalid tokens into a GSSAPI application session, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/94904 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2013-1418**
DESCRIPTION:** MIT Kerberos is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in the setup_server_realm() function. If a KDC serves multiple realms, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause KDC to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/88565 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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-FP0011
IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System | Firmware version 4.6.1| 4.6.1.0-ISS-ProvG-AllModels-System-FP0015
IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System | Firmware version 4.6| 4.6.0.0-ISS-ProvG-AllModels-System-FP0013
IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System | Firmware version 4.5| 4.5.0.0-ISS-ProvG-AllModels-System-FP0015
IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System | Firmware version 4.4| 4.4.0.0-ISS-ProvG-AllModels-System-FP0015
IBM Security Network Intrusion Prevention System | Firmware version 4.3| 4.3.0.0-ISS-ProvG-AllModels-System-FP0013

Workarounds and Mitigations

None