Security Bulletin: IBM Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot is affected by vulnerability in perl (CVE-2018-12015)

Summary

IBM Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot has addressed the following vulnerability in perl.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-12015 DESCRIPTION: Perl could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system, caused by improper validation of user request by the Archive::Tar module. An attacker could send a specially-crafted request containing “dot dot” sequences (/…/) to overwrite arbitrary files on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/144559&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:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Product

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Affected Version

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IBM Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot

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9.6

Remediation/Fixes

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

Product

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Fix Version

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IBM Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot
(ibm_fw_dsa_dsyte2z-9.65_anyos_32-64)

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dsyte2z-9.65

Workarounds and Mitigations

None