Security Bulletin: IBM Security Access Manager appliances are affected by a vulnerability in Busybox (CVE-2014-9645)

Summary

A vulnerability has been identified in Busybox. IBM Security Access Manager appliances use Busybox and are affected by this vulnerabilty.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2014-9645**
DESCRIPTION:** Busybox could allow a local attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an error when parsing module names by the modprobe. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially-crafted basename to load arbitrary modules.
CVSS Base Score: 2.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100392&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Security Access Manager for Web 7.0 appliances, all firmware versions.

IBM Security Access Manager for Web 8.0 appliances, all firmware versions.

IBM Security Access Manager for Mobile 8.0 appliances, all firmware versions.

IBM Security Access Manager 9.0 appliances, all firmware versions.

Remediation/Fixes

IBM has provided patches for all affected versions. Follow the installation instructions in the README files included with the patch.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.