7.5 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
IBM Flex System Manager (FSM) is affected by gnutls vulnerability CVE-2014-3466 which could be used to create a buffer overflow.
IBM Flex System Manager (FSM) is affected by gnutls vulnerability CVE-2014-3466 which could be used to create a buffer overflow.
Vulnerability Details:
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3466
Description: IBM FSM contains gnutls that is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking when parsing session ids from Server Hello packets.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/93542>
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
From the FSM command line enter lsconfig -V to determine the level of FSM installed.
NON-AFFECTED PRODUCTS and VERSIONS
Product | VRMF | APAR | Remediation |
---|---|---|---|
Flex System Manager | 1.1.x.x | IT02966 | Upgrade to FSM 1.3.2.0, or open a PMR with support to request an APAR. |
Flex System Manager | 1.2.0.x | IT02966 | fsmfix1.2.0.0_IT02966 |
Flex System Manager | 1.2.1.x | IT02966 | fsmfix1.2.1.0_IT02966 |
Flex System Manager | 1.3.0.x | IT02966 | fsmfix1.3.0.0_IT02966 |
Flex System Manager | 1.3.1.x | IT02966 | fsmfix1.3.1.0_IT02966 |
Flex System Manager | 1.3.2.x | IT02966 | fsmfix1.3.2.0_IT02966 |
None Known
Related Information:
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
Acknowledgement
None
Change History
25 August 2014: Original Copy Published
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