Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in JasPer affect PowerKVM

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-1000050 DESCRIPTION: JasPer is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer exception in the jp2_encode function. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/130253&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:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2016-9396 DESCRIPTION: JasPer is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the JPC_NOMINALGAIN function in jpc_t1cod.c. By using unspecified vectors, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger an assertion failure.
CVSS Base Score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/123690&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

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 starting with v3.1.0.2 update 16.

Workarounds and Mitigations

none