Security Bulletin: IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM) is affected by vulnerabilities in cURL (CVE-2018-16840 CVE-2018-16842)

Summary

IBM Advanced Management Module (AMM) has addressed the following vulnerabilities in cURL.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-16842 DESCRIPTION: cURL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a heap-based buffer over-read in the display function in the command line tool. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/152300&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:L/I:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2018-16840 DESCRIPTION: cURL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a heap use-after-free flaw in the Curl_close function. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/152299&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:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Product

|

Affected Version

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IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM)
| BPET

IBM BladeCenter T Advanced Management Module (AMM)

| BBET

Remediation/Fixes

Firmware fix versions are available on Fix Central: <http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/&gt;

Product

|

Affected Version

—|—

IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM)

(ibm_fw_amm_bpet68l-3.68l_anyos_noarch) )

| bpet68l-3.68l

IBM BladeCenter T Advanced Management Module (AMM)
(ibm_fw_amm_bbet68l-3.68l_anyos_noarch)

| bbet68l-3.68l

Workarounds and Mitigations

None