Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in sudo affects PowerKVM (CVE-2016-7091)

Summary

PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in the sudo package. IBM has now addressed this vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-7091**
DESCRIPTION:** The Sudo package could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the preservation of the value of INPUTRC from the user’s environment. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to read content from specially formatted files and obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/118699 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

PowerKVM 2.1 and PowerKVM 3.1.

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 as of 3.1.0.2 update 3 or later.

For version 2.1, see https://ibm.biz/BdEnT8. This issue is addressed as of PowerKVM 2.1.1.3-65 update 13 or later. Customers running v2.1 are, in any case, encouraged to upgrade to v3.1.

For v2.1 systems currently running fix levels of PowerKVM prior to 2.1.1, please see <http://download4.boulder.ibm.com/sar/CMA/OSA/05e4c/0/README&gt; for prerequisite fixes and instructions.