Security Bulletin: IBM i is affected by networking BIND vulnerability CVE-2018-5741

Summary

ISC BIND is vulnerable to this security vulnerability. IBM i has addressed this vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-5741 DESCRIPTION: ISC BIND could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an error in the documentation of the ‘update-policy’ feature for the ‘krb5-subdomain’ and ‘ms-subdomain’ update policies. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to modify records in the zone at or below the name specified in the name field.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/150171&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)****

Affected Products and Versions

Releases 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 of IBM i are affected.

Remediation/Fixes

The issue can be fixed by applying a PTF to IBM i.
Releases 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 of IBM i are supported and will be fixed.

<https://www-945.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/&gt;

The IBM i PTF numbers are:

Release 7.1 – SI68705
Release 7.2 – SI68706
Release 7.3 – SI68707

Important note:IBM recommends that all users running unsupported versions of affected products upgrade to supported and fixed version of affected products.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None