Security Bulletin: IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM) is affected by vulnerability in GNU glibc (CVE-2018-11236)

Summary

IBM Advanced Management Module (AMM) has addressed the following vulnerability in GNU glibc.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-11236 DESCRIPTION: GNU glibc is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds of checking by the pathname arguments in the realpath function in stdlib/canonicalize.c. By using specially-crafted pathname arguments, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/143578&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Product

|

Affected Version

—|—

IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM)

| BPET

IBM BladeCenter T Advanced Management Module (AMM)

| BBET

Remediation/Fixes

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

Product

|

Affected Version

—|—

IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM)

(ibm_fw_amm_bpet68l-3.68l_anyos_noarch)

| bpet68l-3.68l

IBM BladeCenter T Advanced Management Module (AMM)
(ibm_fw_amm_bbet68l-3.68l_anyos_noarch)

| bbet68l-3.68l

Workarounds and Mitigations

None