Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in curl affect IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM) (CVE-2016-9586, CVE-2017-7407)

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-9586

Description: cURL/libcurl is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper boundary checks by the floating point conversion. By sending a specially crafted string, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.

CVSS Base Score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/119929&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:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2017-7407

Description: curl could allow a physical attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error in the ourWriteOut function in tool_writeout.c. By reading a workstation screen during use of a --write-out argument ending in a “%” character, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information from process memory.

CVSS Base Score: 2.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/125384&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

References

• Complete CVSS v3 Guide
• On-line Calculator v3

Related Information
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog
Lenovo Product Security Advisories

Acknowledgement

None

Change History
08 December 2017: Original Copy Published

• The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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