Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in libsoup affects PowerKVM

Summary

PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in libsoup. IBM has now addressed this vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-2885**
DESCRIPTION:** GNOME libsoup is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking with HTTP Chunked Encoding. By sending a specially crafted HTTP request, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/130196 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

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. This issue is addressed starting with v3.1.0.2 update 10.

Workarounds and Mitigations

none