Security Bulletin: IBM® Db2® LUW on AIX and Linux Affected by a Vulnerability in IBM® Spectrum Scale (CVE-2018-1723).

Summary Db2 LUW is affected by a vulnerability in IBM® Spectrum Scale Version 4.1.x and 4.2.x that is used by DB2® pureScale™ Feature on AIX and Linux. IBM Spectrum Scale is previously known as General Parallel File System GPFS. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-1723 DESCRIPTION: IBM Spectrum...

Security Bulletin: The Elastic Storage Server is affected by a vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Scale (CVE-2018-1782)

Summary The Elastic Storage Server is affected by a vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Scale which could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a kernel panic on a node running GPFS by accessing a file that is stored on a GPFS file system with mmap, or by executing a crafted file stored on a GPFS...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in IBM Java SDK affects IBM Spectrum Scale packaged in IBM Elastic Storage Server (CVE-2018-12539)

Summary There is a vulnerability in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, Version 8 used by IBM Elastic Storage Server. This issue was disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in July 2018. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-12539 DESCRIPTION: Eclipse OpenJ9 could allow a local attacker to...

Security Bulletin: IBM Spectrum Scale for IBM Elastic Storage Server is affected by a vulnerability which could allow an unprivileged, authenticated user with access to a GPFS node to read arbitrary files available on this node (CVE-2018-1723)

Summary The Elastic Storage Server are affected by a vulnerability in IBM Spectrum Scale could allow an unprivileged, authenticated user with access to a GPFS node to read arbitrary files available on this node CVE-2018-1723. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-1723 DESCRIPTION: IBM Spectrum...

Modular Distributed Fingerprinting Engine: Scannerl

Scannerl is a modular distributed fingerprinting engine implemented by Kudelski Security. Scannerl can fingerprint thousands of targets on a single host, but can just as easily be distributed across multiple hosts. Scannerl is to fingerprinting what zmap is to port scanning. Scannerl works on...

Scannerl - The Modular Distributed Fingerprinting Engine

Scannerl is a modular distributed fingerprinting engine implemented by Kudelski Security. Scannerl can fingerprint thousands of targets on a single host, but can just as easily be distributed across multiple hosts. Scannerl is to fingerprinting what zmap is to port scanning. Scannerl works on...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in Samba affects IBM Spectrum Scale SMB protocol access method (CVE-2018-10858)

Summary A Samba vulnerability affects IBM Spectrum Scale SMB protocol access method to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by libsmbclient. By sending an overly long filename, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in IBM Java SDK affects IBM Spectrum Scale

Summary There is a vulnerability in IBM SDK Java Technology Edition, Version 8 used by IBM Spectrum Scale. This issue was disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in Jul 2018. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-12539 DESCRIPTION: Eclipse OpenJ9 could allow a local attacker to gain elevate...

Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in IBM Spectrum Scale bundled with IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager for Software Defined Infrastructure (CVE-2018-1782)

Summary IBM Spectrum Scale v5.0.0 bundled with IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager for Software Defined Infrastructure SDI v1.1.0 can be upgraded to v5.0.1.X. IBM Spectrum Scale v5.0.1 is bundled with IBM Cloud PowerVC Manager for Software Defined Infrastructure SDI v1.1.1. Information about a security...

CVE-2018-1723

IBM Spectrum Scale 4.1.1.0, 4.1.1.20, 4.2.0.0, 4.2.3.10, 5.0.0 and 5.0.1.2 could allow an unprivileged, authenticated user with access to a GPFS node to read arbitrary files available on this node. IBM X-Force ID: 147373...

CVE-2018-1723

IBM Spectrum Scale 4.1.1.0, 4.1.1.20, 4.2.0.0, 4.2.3.10, 5.0.0 and 5.0.1.2 could allow an unprivileged, authenticated user with access to a GPFS node to read arbitrary files available on this node. IBM X-Force ID: 147373...

CVE-2018-1783

IBM GPFS IBM Spectrum Scale 4.1.1.0, 4.1.1.20, 4.2.0.0, 4.2.3.10, 5.0.0 and 5.0.1.2 command line utility allows an unprivileged, authenticated user with access to a GPFS node to forcefully terminate GPFS and deny access to data available through GPFS. IBM X-Force ID: 148806...

Code injection

IBM Spectrum Scale 4.1.1.0, 4.1.1.20, 4.2.0.0, 4.2.3.10, 5.0.0 and 5.0.1.2 could allow an unprivileged, authenticated user with access to a GPFS node to read arbitrary files available on this node. IBM X-Force ID: 147373...

CVE-2018-1723

IBM Spectrum Scale 4.1.1.0, 4.1.1.20, 4.2.0.0, 4.2.3.10, 5.0.0 and 5.0.1.2 could allow an unprivileged, authenticated user with access to a GPFS node to read arbitrary files available on this node. IBM X-Force ID: 147373...

CVE-2018-1723

Summary of CVE-2018-1723 (IBM Spectrum Scale/GPFS) Root cause: A GPFS/IBM Spectrum Scale component could allow an unprivileged, authenticated user with access to a GPFS node to read arbitrary files on that node. The vulnerability is associated with IBM Spectrum Scale versions including 4.1.1.0, 4...

CVE-2018-1783

CVE-2018-1783 affects IBM GPFS/IBM Spectrum Scale components. The IBM bulletins describe that the GPFS command line utility lets an unprivileged, authenticated user with GPFS node access forcibly terminate GPFS and deny data access. Affected products include IBM Spectrum Scale and Db2/PureApplica...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability has been identified in IBM Spectrum Scale that could allow a unprivileged, auntheticated user to read aribiratry file on node

Summary IBM Spectrum Scale could allow an unprivileged, authenticated user with access to a GPFS node to read arbitrary files available on this node. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-1723 DESCRIPTION: IBM Spectrum Scale could allow a GPFS command line utility allows an unprivileged,...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability has been identified in IBM Spectrum Scale that could allow a unprivileged, auntheticated user to forcefully unterminate and deny access to data available through GPFS

Summary IBM Spectrum Scale could allow an unprivileged, authenticated user with access to a GPFS node to forcefully terminate GPFS and deny access to data available through GPFS. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-1783 DESCRIPTION: IBM GPFS command line utility allows an unprivileged,...

Meet GhostDNS: The dangerous malware behind IoT botnet targeting banks

By Waqas Security researchers at NetLab, a sub-division of the Chinese cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360, have discovered a new, wide-scale, and very active malware campaign that has managed to hijack more than 100,000 home routers between Sept 21 and 27. A majority of routers almost 88% are located i...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in GSKit affect IBM Spectrum Scale used by DB2® pureScale™ (CVE-2018-1431, CVE-2018-1447, CVE-2017-3732, CVE-2016-0705)

Summary DB2 LUW is affected by a vulnerability in IBM® Spectrum Scale Version V4.2 and V4.1 that is used by DB2® pureScale™ Feature on AIX and Linux. IBM Spectrum Scale is previously known as General Parallel File System GPFS. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-1431 DESCRIPTION: A vulnerabilit...