Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in glibc affects IBM System Networking RackSwitches (CVE-2013-7424)

Summary

A GNU C Library (glibc) vulnerability affects IBM System Networking RackSwitches. The IBM System Networking RackSwitches listed below have addressed the CVE.

Vulnerability Details

Summary

A GNU C Library (glibc) vulnerability affects IBM System Networking RackSwitches. The IBM System Networking RackSwitches listed below have addressed the CVE.

Vulnerability Details

CVE-ID: CVE-2013-7424

Description: The GNU C Library (glibc) could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an invalid free error in the getaddrinfo() function when used with the AI_IDN flag. An attacker able to make an application call this function could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.

CVSS Base Score: 5.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/101073&gt; for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

Affected products and versions

Remediation/Fixes

Firmware updates are available at IBM Fix Central: <http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/&gt;

You should verify applying the fix does not cause any compatibility issues.

Reference

• Complete CVSS V2 Guide
• On-line Calculator V2

Related Information
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History
20 August 2015: Original Copy Published

• The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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