Security Bulletin: IBM i is affected by DHCP vulnerabilities CVE-2018-5732 and CVE-2018-5733.

Summary

IBM i DHCP is vulnerable to several security vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-5732 DESCRIPTION: ISC DHCP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a buffer overflow in dhclient. By sending a specially crafted response, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and possibly execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the server to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/139613 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-2018-5733 DESCRIPTION: ISC DHCP is vulnerable to a denial of service. By sending an overly large amount of packets, a remote attacker could overflow a reference counter and cause dhcpd to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/139614 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Releases 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 of IBM i are affected.

Remediation/Fixes

The issue can be fixed by applying a PTF to IBM i.

Releases 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 of IBM i are supported and will be fixed.

http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/

The IBM i PTF numbers are:

Release 7.1 – SI67242 Release 7.2 – SI67240 Release 7.3 – SI67239

_Important note: _IBM recommends that all users running unsupported versions of affected products upgrade to supported and fixed version of affected products.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None known