Security Bulletin: TS3000 (TSSC/IMC) is affected by two issues for glibc (CVE-2015-1781, CVE-2013-7423 )

Summary

The Total Storage System Console/TS4500 Integrated Management Console is affected by two vulnerabilities in the glibc library.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2013-7423**
DESCRIPTION:** GNU glibc could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the writing of DNS queries to random file descriptors under high load by the getaddrinfo() function. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 1.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/100647 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2015-1781**
DESCRIPTION:** GNU C Library (glibc) is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the gethostbyname_r() and other related functions. By sending a specially-crafted argument, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system elevated privileges or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/102500 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Affected Products and Versions

TSSC 7.4.X

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to TSSC 7.5.X. Please contact IBM support to obtain the fix.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None