Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in nss affects PowerKVM

Summary

PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in nss. IBM has now addressed this vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-7805**
DESCRIPTION:** Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a use-after-free in TLS 1.2 generating handshake hashes. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/132749 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)

Affected Products and Versions

PowerKVM 3.1

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