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

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-15906 DESCRIPTION: OpenSSH is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the process_open() function when in read-only mode. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to create zero-length files and cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/133128&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2016-10708 DESCRIPTION: OpenSSH is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference. By sending a specially crafted SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS message, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/117448&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:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2016-10012 DESCRIPTION: OpenSSH could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by improper bounds checking in the shared memory manager. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/119831&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2008-1483 DESCRIPTION: OpenSSH could allow a local authenticated attacker to hijack forwarded X11 sessions, caused by an error in sshd when setting the DISPLAY environment variable. By listening to the same port used to forward the X11 session, a local attacker could obtain the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE and hijack other user’'s sessions.
CVSS Base Score: 1.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41438&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)

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