Security Bulletin: IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM) is affected by a vulnerability in ncurses (CVE-2017-13733)

Summary

IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM) has addressed the following vulnerability in ncurses.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-13733 DESCRIPTION: Ncurses is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an illegal address access in the fmt_entry function in progs/dump_entry.c. By using a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/131061&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Product

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Affected Version

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IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM)

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BPET

Remediation/Fixes

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

Product

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Fix Version

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IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM)
(ibm_fw_amm_bpet68j-3.68j_anyos_noarch)

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bpet68j-3.68j

Workarounds and Mitigations

None