Security Bulletin: IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) is affected by vulnerabilities in Libxml2

Summary

The following vulnerabilities in Libxml2 have been addressed by IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM).

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-7595
**DESCRIPTION:**The Gnome Project Libxml2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to enter into an infinite loop.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/175333 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2019-20388
**DESCRIPTION:**GNOME libxml2 could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a xmlSchemaValidateStream memory leak in xmlSchemaPreRun in xmlschemas.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/175539 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2019-19956
**DESCRIPTION:**libxml2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory leak in xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover in parser.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/173518 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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;

IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM)

(ibm_fw_cmm_2pet22a-2.5.20a_anyos_noarch)

| 2pet22a-2.5.20a

Workarounds and Mitigations

None