Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in binutils affects IBM Flex System Manager (FSM): (CVE-2014-8501, CVE-2014-8502, CVE-2014-8503)

2019-01-3101:45:01

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7.5 High

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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Summary

Vulnerabilities have been found in libxml2 that is used by IBM Flex System Manager.

Vulnerability Details

Abstract

Vulnerabilities have been found in libxml2 that is used by IBM Flex System Manager.

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Vulnerability Details:

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-8501

Description: GNU Binutils is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in peXXigen.c. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.

CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/98420> for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-8502

Description: GNU Binutils is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the objdump-pe-crasher2. By sending an overly long string, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.

CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/98483> for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-8503

Description: GNU Binutils is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by ihex.c. By sending an overly long string, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.

CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/98482> 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

Flex System Manager 1.1.x.x
Flex System Manager 1.2.0.x
Flex System Manager 1.2.1.x
Flex System Manager 1.3.0.x
Flex System Manager 1.3.1.x
Flex System Manager 1.3.2.x

Remediation/Fixes:

IBM recommends that you remediate these vulnerabilities through the following code upgrades:

Product	VRMF	APAR	Remediation
Flex System Manager	1.3.2.x	IT06705	fsmfix_1.3.2.0_IT06705_IT06684_IT06706
Flex System Manager	1.3.1.x	IT06705	fsmfix_1.3.1.0_IT06705_IT06684_IT06706
Flex System Manager	1.3.0.x	IT06705	fsmfix_1.3.0.0_IT06705_IT06684_IT06706
Flex System Manager	1.2.1.x	IT06705	IBM is no longer providing code updates for this release, upgrade to FSM 1.3.2.0 and follow the appropriate remediation for all vulnerabilities.
Flex System Manager	1.2.0.x	IT06705	IBM is no longer providing code updates for this release, upgrade to FSM 1.3.2.0 and follow the appropriate remediation for all vulnerabilities.
Flex System Manager	1.1.x.x	IT06705	IBM is no longer providing code updates for this release, upgrade to FSM 1.3.2.0 and follow the appropriate remediation for all vulnerabilities.

Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):

None

Reference:

Acknowledgement

None

Change History
13 February 2015: Original Copy Published

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