Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in GNU C Library affect IBM Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) for System x, Flex and BladeCenter systems

Summary

IBM Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) for System x, Flex and BladeCenter systems have addressed the following vulnerabilities in GNU C Library.

Vulnerability Details

Summary

IBM Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) for System x, Flex and BladeCenter systems have addressed the following vulnerabilities in GNU C Library.

Vulnerability Details:

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-1234

Description: glibc is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack-based buffer overflow within the glob implementation when GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC is used. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using an overly long name to overflow a buffer and cause the application to crash.

CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111311&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)

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-3706

Description: GNU C Library (glibc or libc6) is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack-based buffer overflow by the getaddrinfo function within sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.

CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/114123&gt; for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: 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;.

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
Lenovo Product Security Advisories

Acknowledgement

None.

Change History
03 January 2017: 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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