Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in openldap2 affects IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CVE-2015-6908)

Summary

IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) has addressed the following vulnerability in openldap2.

Vulnerability Details

Summary

IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) has addressed the following vulnerability in openldap2.

Vulnerability Details:

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-6908

Description: OpenLDAP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an assertion error in the ber_get_next() function. By sending a specially-crafted packet, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the slapd service to crash.

CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/106296&gt; for 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

Remediation/Fixes:

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

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

Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):

None

References:

• Complete CVSS v3 Guide
• On-line Calculator v3

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

Acknowledgement

None.

Change History
06 July 2016: 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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