Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in binutils affect IBM Chassis Management Module (CMM) (CVE-2014-8501 CVE-2014-8502 CVE-2014-8503)

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities in binutils affect IBM Chassis Management Module (CMM).

Vulnerability Details

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities in binutils affect IBM Chassis Management Module (CMM).

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&gt; for 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&gt; for 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&gt; for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Affected products and versions

The following versions are affected:

• IBM Chassis Management Module [CMM] versions 1.0.0 [2PET10A] - 2.5.2 [2PET12R]

Remediation/Fixes:

It is recommended to apply the following update, or a later version. Firmware updates are available through IBM Fix Central - <http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/&gt; . You should verify applying this fix does not cause any compatibility issues.

• IBM Chassis Management Module [CMM] Firmware Update v2.5.3T [2PET12T]

Workarounds and Mitigations:

None

References:

• Complete CVSS Guide
• On-line Calculator V2

Related Information:
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement

None

Change History
25 June 2015: Original Copy Published

• The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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