Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in ISC Bind affects PowerKVM

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-5740 DESCRIPTION: ISC BIND is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a defect in the deny-answer-aliases feature. By triggering this defect, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause an INSIST assertion failure in name.c.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/148131&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/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 16.

Workarounds and Mitigations

none