Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in DHCP affects IBM Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) for System x, Flex and BladeCenter systems

Summary

IBM Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) for System x, Flex and BladeCenter systems have addressed the following vulnerability in DHCP.

Vulnerability Details

Summary

IBM Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) for System x, Flex and BladeCenter systems have addressed the following vulnerability in DHCP.

Vulnerability Details:

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8605

Description: ISC DHCP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to properly check the UDP payload length. By sending a specially crafted packet with an invalid IPv4 UDP length field, a remote attacker from within the local network could exploit this vulnerability to cause the DHCP server, client, or relay program to terminate.

CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109586&gt; for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes:

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

Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):

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
03 January 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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