Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Python affect IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM)

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-18207 DESCRIPTION: Python is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a divide-by-zero in the Wave_read._read_fmt_chunk function in Lib/wave.py. 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/139763&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2017-1000158 DESCRIPTION: CPython is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by an integer overflow in the PyString_DecodeEscape function in stringobject.c. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/135119&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:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Product

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Affected Version

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IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM)

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BPET

Remediation/Fixes

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

Product

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Fix Version

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IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM)
(ibm_fw_amm_bpet68k-3.68k_anyos_noarch)

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bpet68k-3.68k

Workarounds and Mitigations

None