Security Bulletin: IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager has released a fixpack in response to the vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown.

Summary

IBM has released the following a fixpack for IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager in response to CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5754

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-5753 DESCRIPTION: Intel Haswell Xeon, AMD PRO and ARM Cortex A57 CPUs could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a bounds check bypass in the CPU speculative branch instruction execution feature. By conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cross the syscall boundary and read data from the CPU virtual memory.
CVSS Base Score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/137052&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2017-5754 DESCRIPTION: Intel Haswell Xeon, AMD PRO and ARM Cortex A57 CPUs could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a rogue data cache load in the CPU speculative branch instruction execution feature. By conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the CPU to read kernel memory from userspace before the permission check for accessing an address is performed.
CVSS Base Score: 5.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/137053&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager (ISPIM)1.0.1.1, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1.0, 2.1.1

Remediation/Fixes

Product Name

| VRMF | First Fix
—|—|—
ISPIM | 2.0.2 | 2.0.2-ISS-ISPIM-VA-FP0011
ISPIM | 2.1.0 | 2.1.0-ISS-ISPIM-VA-FP0008
ISPIM | 2.1.1 | 2.1.1-ISS-ISPIM-VA-FP0002

For ISPIM 1.0.1.1, 2.0.0, and 2.0.1 IBM recommends upgrading to a fixed release of the product.

For remediation of CVE-2017-5715 the firmware update needs to be obtained from the Hypervisor and/or Hardware provider.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None