Security Bulletin
Summary
PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in Mozilla gdb-pixbuf2 (CVE-2015-4491). A fix for this vulnerability is available, as described below. Note that this primarily affects Mozilla Firefox, which does not ship with PowerKVM.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2015-4491
DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking bygdk-pixbuf affecting Linux systems using Gnome. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/105544 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Note that this primarily affects Mozilla Firefox, which does not ship with PowerKVM.
Affected Products and Versions
PowerKVM v2.1
Remediation/Fixes
Fix is made available via Fix Central (https://ibm.biz/BdEnT8) in 2.1.1 Build 65.1 and all later 2.1.1 SP3 service builds and 2.1.1 fix packs. For systems currently running fix levels of PowerKVM prior to 2.1.1, please see http://download4.boulder.ibm.com/sar/CMA/OSA/05e4c/0/README for prerequisite fixes and instructions. Customers can also update from 2.1.1 (GA and later levels) by using "yum update"
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Change History
19 Oct 2015 - 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.
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Document Information
Modified date:
17 June 2018
UID
isg3T1022833