Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in bind affect Power Hardware Management Console (CVE-2016-1285, CVE-2016-1286)

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-1285**
DESCRIPTION:** ISC BIND is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper handling of control channel input. By sending a specially crafted packet, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger an assertion failure in sexpr.c or alist.c and cause the named process to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111389 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2016-1286**
DESCRIPTION:** ISC BIND is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when parsing signature records for DNAME resource records. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger an assertion failure in resolver.c or db.c and cause the named process to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111390 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Power HMC V7.9.0.0
Power HMC V8.1.0.0
Power HMC V8.2.0.0
Power HMC V8.3.0.0
Power HMC V8.4.0.0

Remediation/Fixes

The following fixes are available on IBM Fix Central

Product

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VRMF

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APAR

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Remediation/Fix

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Power HMC

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V7.7.9.0 SP3

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MB04007

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Apply eFix MH01622

Power HMC

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V8.8.1.0 SP3

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MB04008

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Apply eFix MH01623

Power HMC

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V8.8.2.0 SP2

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MB04009

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Apply eFix MH01624

Power HMC

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V8.8.3.0 SP2

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MB04011

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Apply eFix MH01625

Power HMC

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V8.8.4.0 SP1

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MB04012

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Apply eFix MH01626

Workarounds and Mitigations

None