Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in nagios affect PowerKVM

Summary

PowerKVM is affected by vulnerabilities in magios. IBM has now addressed these vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-14312**
DESCRIPTION:** Nagios Core could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a flaw in the nagios.cfg. By leveraging access to this non-root account, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/131940 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2013-7205**
DESCRIPTION:** Nagios is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an off-by-one error in the process_cgivars() function. By sending a specially-crafted key value, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger an out-of-bounds read error.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/89945 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2013-7108**
DESCRIPTION:** Icinga is vulnerable to an off-by-one buffer overflow, caused by improper validation of user supplied input by process_cgivars() method. A remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application.
CVSS Base Score: 4.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/89801 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2013-4214**
DESCRIPTION:** Nagios could allow a local attacker to launch a symlink attack. The html/rss-newsfeed.php script creates temporary files insecurely. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability by creating a symbolic link from a temporary file to various files on the system, which could allow the attacker to overwrite arbitrary files on the system with elevated privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86320 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2008-4796**
DESCRIPTION:** Snoopy could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the Snoopy.class.php script. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially-crafted request to execute arbitrary commands with privileges of the application.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46068 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Affected Products and Versions

PowerKVM v3.1

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 11.

Workarounds and Mitigations

none