Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in GNU grep utility affect IBM Security Network Protection (CVE-2012-5667, and CVE-2015-1345)

Summary

The grep utility searches through textual input for lines that contain a match to a specified pattern and then prints the matching lines. Security vulnerabilities have been discovered in grep utility used with IBM Security Network Protection.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-1345**
DESCRIPTION:** GNU grep is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by an error in kwset.c. A remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/101351 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2012-5667**
DESCRIPTION:** grep is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by an integer overflow when parsing very long lines. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80811 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Security Network Protection 5.2
IBM Security Network Protection 5.3.1
IBM Security Network Protection 5.3.2

Remediation/Fixes

Product

| VRMF| Remediation/First Fix
—|—|—
IBM Security Network Protection | Firmware version 5.2| Download 5.2.0.0-ISS-XGS-All-Models-Hotfix-FP0013 from IBM Fix Central and upload and install via the Fix Packs page of the Local Management Interface.
IBM Security Network Protection| Firmware version 5.3.1| Download Firmware 5.3.1.6 from IBM Security License Key and Download Center and upload and install via the Available Updates page of the Local Management Interface.
IBM Security Network Protection| Firmware version 5.3.2| Install Firmware 5.3.2.1 from the Available Updates page of the Local Management Interface, or by performing a One Time Scheduled Installation from SiteProtector.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None