Security Bulletin: Multiple Vulnerabilities in ISC Bind affect IBM SmartCloud Provisioning for IBM Software Virtual Appliance (CVE-2016-1286, CVE-2016-2088, CVE-2016-1285)

Summary

Vulnerabilities have been identified in bind package in ISC Bind affect IBM SmartCloud Provisioning for IBM Software Virtual Appliance.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-1286**
DESCRIPTION:** ISC BIND is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when parsing signature records for DNAME resource records. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger an assertion failure in resolver.c or db.c and cause the named process to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111390 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:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2016-2088**
DESCRIPTION:** ISC BIND is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in servers with cookie support enabled. By sending a response containing multiple DNS cookie options, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger an assertion failure.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111391 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:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2016-1285**
DESCRIPTION:** ISC BIND is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper handling of control channel input. By sending a specially crafted packet, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger an assertion failure in sexpr.c or alist.c and cause the named process to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111389 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:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

All releases of IBM SmartCloud Provisioning 2.1 for IBM Software Virtual Appliance

Workarounds and Mitigations

If you are running any release of IBM SmartCloud Provisioning 2.1 for IBM Software Virtual Appliance, contact IBM support.