Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in DHCP affect Power Hardware Management Console (‪CVE-2015-8605 and CVE-2016-2774‬‬)

Summary

DHCP is used by Power Hardware Management Console (HMC). HMC has addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-8605 DESCRIPTION: ISC DHCP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to properly check the UDP payload length. By sending a specially crafted packet with an invalid IPv4 UDP length field, a remote attacker from within the local network could exploit this vulnerability to cause the DHCP server, client, or relay program to terminate.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109586 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2016-2774 DESCRIPTION: ISC DHCP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to limit the number of open TCP connections to the ports for inter-process communications and control. By opening a large number of TCP connections, a remote attacker from within the local network could exploit this vulnerability to become unresponsive or consume all available sockets.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111319 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Version

|

CVE list

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Power HMC V7.7.9.0

| CVE-2015-8605 and CVE-2016-2774

Power HMC V8.8.6.0

| CVE-2016-2774

Remediation/Fixes

The following fixes are available on IBM Fix Central at: <http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/&gt;

Product

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VRMF

|

APAR

|

Remediation/Fix

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Power HMC

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V7.7.9.0 SP3

|

MB04044

|

MH01659

Power HMC

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V8.8.6.0

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MB04060

|

MH01674

Workarounds and Mitigations

None