Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in ISC Bind affect PowerKVM (CVE-2016-1285, CVE-2016-1286)

Summary

PowerKVM is affected by vulnerabilities in ISC Bind. These vulnerabilities are now fixed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-1286**
DESCRIPTION:** ISC BIND is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when parsing signature records for DNAME resource records. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger an assertion failure in resolver.c or db.c and cause the named process to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111390 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2016-1285**
DESCRIPTION:** ISC BIND is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper handling of control channel input. By sending a specially crafted packet, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger an assertion failure in sexpr.c or alist.c and cause the named process to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111389 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

PowerKVM 2.1 and PowerKVM 3.1

Remediation/Fixes

Customers can update PowerKVM systems by using “yum update”.

Fix images are made available via Fix Central. For version 3.1, see https://ibm.biz/BdHggw for 3.1.0.1 update 1 or later.

For version 2.1, see PowerKVM 2.1.1.3-65.8 Update https://ibm.biz/BdEnT8 and all later 2.1.1 service updates. Customers running v2.1 are, in any case, encouraged to upgrade to v3.1.

For v2.1 systems currently running fix levels of PowerKVM prior to 2.1.1, please see <http://download4.boulder.ibm.com/sar/CMA/OSA/05e4c/0/README&gt; for prerequisite fixes and instructions.