Security Bulletin: IBM Storage Ceph is vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write in the RHEL UBI (CVE-2023-38545)

Summary

RHEL UBI is used by IBM Storage Ceph as the base operating system. CVE-2023-38545 This bulletin identifies the steps to take to address the vulnerability in RHEL.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-38545
**DESCRIPTION:**libcurl and cURL are vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by the improper handling of hostnames longer than 255 bytes during a slow SOCKS5 proxy handshake. By sending an overly long argument, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268045 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now.
Download the latest version of IBM Storage Ceph and upgrade to 6.1z3 by following instructions.

<https://public.dhe.ibm.com/ibmdl/export/pub/storage/ceph/&gt;
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/storage-ceph/6?topic=upgrading&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None