Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in wget affect PowerKVM

Summary

PowerKVM is affected by vulnerabilities in wget. IBM has now addressed these vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-13090**
DESCRIPTION:** GNU wget is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the fd_read_body() function in src/retr.c. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP data, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/134199 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2017-13089**
DESCRIPTION:** GNU wget is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the skip_short_body() function in src/http.c. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP data, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/134200 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

PowerKVM v3.1

Remediation/Fixes

Customers can update PowerKVM systems by using “yum update”.

Fix images are made available via Fix Central. For version 3.1, see https://ibm.biz/BdHggw. This issue is addressed starting with v3.1.0.2 update 11.

Workarounds and Mitigations

none