Security Bulletin: IBM Security Access Manager Appliance is affected by a glibc vulnerability (CVE-2017-15670)

Summary

IBM Security Access Manager Appliance has addressed the following vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-15670 DESCRIPTION: GNU C Library is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the glob function in glob.c. By sending a specially-crafted string, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/133915&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Security Access Manager Appliance 7.0.0.34 and below.

IBM Security Access Manager Appliance 8.0.1.8 and below.

Remediation/Fixes

1. For versions prior to 8.0.1.8, upgrade to 8.0.1.8:
8.0.1-ISS-WGA-FP0008_ _

2. Apply 8.0.1.8 IF1:
8.0.1.8-ISS-WGA-IF0001

Workarounds and Mitigations

None