Security Bulletin: IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) is affected by vulnerabilities in glib2, libxml2 and ntp

Summary

IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) has addressed the following vulnerabilities in glib2, libxml2 and ntp.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-16429 DESCRIPTION: GNOME GLib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds read in g_markup_parse_context_parse() in gmarkup.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/149332&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2018-14404 DESCRIPTION: libxml2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in the xpath.c:xmlXPathCompOpEval() function. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/147260&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2016-9318 DESCRIPTION: Libxml2 could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by failure to offer a flag directly indicating the status of current document. By using a specially-crafted document to conduct a XML external entity (XXE) attack, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/119018&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2019-8936 DESCRIPTION: NTP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in ntp_control.c. By sending specially crafted mode 6 packets, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the ntpd daemon to SIGSEGV.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/158926&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Product

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Affected Version

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IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM)

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2PET

Remediation/Fixes

Firmware fix versions are available on Fix Central: <http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/&gt;

Product

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Fix Version

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IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM)
(ibm_fw_cmm_2pet18c-2.5.16c_anyos_noarch)

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2pet18c-2.5.16c

Workarounds and Mitigations

None