Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in rmsock affects AIX (CVE-2018-1655)

Summary There is a vulnerability in the rmsock command that affects AIX. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-1655 DESCRIPTION: IBM AIX contains a vulnerability in the rmsock command that may be used to expose kernel memory. CVSS Base Score: 4 CVSS Temporal Score: See...

CVE-2018-1655

CVE-2018-1655 affects IBM AIX rmsock in AIX 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2 (and VIOS 2.2.x). The rmsock setUID binary can leak uninitialized kernel memory when handling crafted socket addresses, enabling an information disclosure via kernel memory exposure. TALOS confirms a kernel memory leak vulnerability e...

Vulnerability in rmsock affects AIX (CVE-2018-1655),Vulnerability in rmsock affects VIOS (CVE-2018-1655)

IBM SECURITY ADVISORY First Issued: Thu Jun 21 14:07:15 CDT 2018 |Updated: Tue Jul 3 08:09:45 CDT 2018 |Update: Additional iFixes are now available. Additional iFixes are now available | for: | AIX 6100-09-09 and 6100-09-10 | AIX 7100-04-04 and 7100-04-05 | AIX 7100-05-00 and 7100-05-01 | AIX...