Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in patch affects PowerKVM

Summary PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in GNU Patch. IBM has now addressed this vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-1000156 DESCRIPTION: GNU Patch could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an input validation error when processing...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL affect PowerKVM

Summary PowerKVM is affected by vulnerabilities in OpenSSL. IBM has now addressed these vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-3738 DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an overflow bug in the AVX2 Montgomery multiplication...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in libvorbis affects PowerKVM

Summary PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in libvorbis. IBM has now addressed this vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-5146 DESCRIPTION: libvorbis, as used in Mozilla Firefox, could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an out-of-bounds...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in procps-ng affect PowerKVM

Summary PowerKVM is affected by vulnerabilities in procps-ng. IBM has now addressed these vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-1126 DESCRIPTION: procps-ng procps is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking. By sending a specially-crafted request, a...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in OpenSSH affects PowerKVM

Summary PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in OpenSSH. IBM has now addressed this vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-15906 DESCRIPTION: OpenSSH is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the processopen function when in read-only mode. A remote authenticate...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in NTP affect PowerKVM

Summary PowerKVM is affected by vulnerabilities in NTP. IBM has now addressed these vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-6464 DESCRIPTION: NTP is vulnerable to a denial of service. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a malformed mode...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in DHCP affects PowerKVM

Summary PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in the DHCP client. IBM has now addressed this vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-1111 DESCRIPTION: The DHCP client packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux could allow a remote attacker on the local network to execute arbitrary comman...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel affect PowerKVM

Summary PowerKVM is affected by vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel . IBM has now addressed these vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-1000004 DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a race condition in the sound system. A remote attacker could...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in libvirt affect PowerKVM

Summary PowerKVM is affected by vulnerabilities in libvirt. IBM has now addressed these vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-5748 DESCRIPTION: QEMU is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in qemu/qemumonitor.c in libvirt. By using a large QEMU reply, a local...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in util-linux affects PowerKVM

Summary PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in util=linux. IBM has now addressed this vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-2616 DESCRIPTION: util-linux could allow a local authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a race condition when handling the...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in erlang affect PowerKVM

Summary PowerKVM is affected by vulnerabilities in erlang. IBM has now addressed these vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-1000385 DESCRIPTION: Erlang/OTP could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an RSA Adaptive Chosen Ciphertext Bleichenbacher...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in DHCP affect PowerKVM

Summary PowerKVM is affected by vulnerabilities in DHCP. IBM has now addressed these vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-5733 DESCRIPTION: ISC DHCP is vulnerable to a denial of service. By sending an overly large amount of packets, a remote attacker could overflow a reference...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in PHP affects PowerKVM

Summary PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in PHP. IBM has now addressed this vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-7890 DESCRIPTION: libgd could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the lack of initialization for colorMap arrays in the GIF decodi...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Ruby affect PowerKVM

Summary PowerKVM is affected by vulnerabilities in Ruby . IBM has now addressed these vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-17790 DESCRIPTION: Ruby could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by a flaw in the lazyinitialize function in...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in systemd affects PowerKVM

Summary PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in systemd. IBM has now addressed this vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-1049 DESCRIPTION: Systemd is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a race condition between .mount and .automount units. A remote authenticated attack...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in the Linux kernel affects PowerKVM

Summary PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in the Linux kernel . IBM has now addressed thie vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-8824 DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a use-after-free in the...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in DHCP affects PowerKVM

Summary PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in DHCP. IBM has now addressed this vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-3144 DESCRIPTION: ISC DHCP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to properly clean up closed OMAPI connections. A remote attacker could...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in bind affects PowerKVM

Summary PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in ISC Bind. IBM has now addressed this vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-3145 DESCRIPTION: ISC BIND is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a use-after-free when improperly sequencing cleanup operations on upstream...

Security Bulletin: PowerKVM has released updates in response to the vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown.

Summary PowerKVM may be affected by vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. IBM has now addressed these vulnerabilities. IBM has released the following updates for PowerKVM in response to CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5754. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-5753 CVEID: CVE-2017-5715...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in curl affects PowerKVM

Summary PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in curl. IBM has now addressed this vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-1000257 DESCRIPTION: cURL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a buffer overread in the IMAP handler. By using a specially crafted IMAP FETCH respons...