Security Bulletin: IBM Storage Ceph is vulnerable to an Out-of-bounds Write in the RHEL UBI (CVE-2024-2961)

Summary

RHEL UBI is used by IBM Storage Ceph as the base operating system. This bulletin identifies the steps to take to address the vulnerability in the RHEL UBI. CVE-2024-2961.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2024-2961
**DESCRIPTION:**GNU C Library is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds write flaw in the iconv() function when converting strings to the ISO-2022-CN-EXT character set. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted content, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash or overwrite a neighbouring variable.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/287843 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.
Download the latest version of IBM Storage Ceph and upgrade to 7.1 by following instructions.

<https://public.dhe.ibm.com/ibmdl/export/pub/storage/ceph/&gt;
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-ceph/7?topic=upgrading&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None