Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in glibc library affects ProtecTIER(CVE-2014-5119)

Security Bulletin

Summary

This bulletin addresses the vulnerability which uses a flaw in glibc that can allow a local unprivileged user to gain root access on Red Hat Enterprise Linux machines used by ProtecTIER

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2014-5119

DESCRIPTION:

The GNU C Library (glibc) is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by an off-by-one error in the __gconv_translit_find() function. By setting an environment variable to a malicious value, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with root privileges.

CVSS Base Score: 7.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/95044 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Affected Products and Versions

ProtecTIER Enterprise Edition (PID 5639- PTA) - TS7650G
ProtecTIER Appliance Edition (PID 5639-PTB) - TS7650AP1
ProtecTIER Entry Edition (PID 5639 - PTC) - TS7610 / TS7620

The code versions impacted are 1.2.x, 2.4.x, 2.5.x, 3.1.x, 3.2.x and 3.3.x

Remediation/Fixes

IBM is providing fixes for this vulnerability in 3.1.17, 3.3.5.1 and 3.3.6. Customers running release 3.2.x, should upgrade to the 3.3 fix.

Below are links to download the fixes.

ProtecTIER Enterprise Edition (PID 5639-PTA) - TS7650G

http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?product=ibm/Storage_Tape/TS7650G+with+ProtecTIER&release=All&platform=All&function=all

ProtecTIER Appliance Edition (PID 5639-PTB) - TS7650AP1
http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Tape%2Bvirtualization&product=ibm/Storage_Tape/TS7650+ProtecTIER+Deduplication+Appliances&release=All&platform=All&function=all

ProtecTIER Entry Edition (PID 5639-PTC)

For TS7610 model:

http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Tape%2Bvirtualization&product=ibm/Storage_Tape/TS7610+ProtecTIER+Deduplication+Appliance&release=All&platform=All&function=all

For TS7620 model:
http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Tape%2Bvirtualization&product=ibm/Storage_Tape/TS7620+ProtecTIER+Deduplication+Appliance+Express&release=All&platform=All&function=all

Workarounds and Mitigations

No known workarounds.

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
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Red HAT - Security Advisory (CVE-2014-5119)

*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

Review the IBM security bulletin disclaimer and definitions regarding your responsibilities for assessing potential impact of security vulnerabilities to your environment.

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Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in glibc library affects ProtecTIER(CVE-2014-5119)