Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in systemd affects PowerKVM

2018-06-1801:42:17

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5.9 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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Summary

PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in systemd. IBM has now addressed this vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-1049**
DESCRIPTION:** Systemd is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a race condition between .mount and .automount units. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/138105> for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined

Affected Products and Versions

PowerKVM 3.1

Remediation/Fixes

Customers can update PowerKVM systems by using “yum update”.

Fix images are made available via Fix Central. For version 3.1, see https://ibm.biz/BdHggw. This issue is addressed starting with v3.1.0.2 update 13.