Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in wget affect PowerKVM

Security Bulletin

Summary

PowerKVM is affected by vulnerabilities in wget. IBM has now addressed these vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-13090
DESCRIPTION: GNU wget is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the fd_read_body() function in src/retr.c. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP data, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/134199 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2017-13089
DESCRIPTION: GNU wget is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the skip_short_body() function in src/http.c. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP data, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/134200 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

PowerKVM v3.1

Remediation/Fixes

Customers can update PowerKVM systems by using "yum update".

Fix images are made available via Fix Central. For version 3.1, see https://ibm.biz/BdHggw. This issue is addressed starting with v3.1.0.2 update 11.

Workarounds and Mitigations

none

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
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Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Change History

19 October 2017 - Initial Version

*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.

Disclaimer

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Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in wget affect PowerKVM