Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Kerberos affects Power Hardware Management Console (CVE-2016-3120 )

Summary

Power Hardware Management Console is affected by security vulnerability in Kerberos. Power Hardware Management Console has addressed the applicable CVE.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-3120**
DESCRIPTION:** MIT Kerberos is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in the validate_as_request() function. By sending specially crafted data, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/115438 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Power HMC V8.8.6.0

Remediation/Fixes

The following fixes are available on IBM Fix Central at: <http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/&gt;

Product

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VRMF

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APAR

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Remediation/Fix

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Power HMC

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V8.8.6.0

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MB04060

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MH01674