IBM NeXtScale Fan Power Controller (FPC) has addressed the following vulnerability in busybox.
Summary
IBM NeXtScale Fan Power Controller (FPC) has addressed the following vulnerability in busybox.
Vulnerability Details:
CVEID: CVE-2016-2147
Description: BusyBox could allow a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by multiple out of bounds write issues in dhcp client implementation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111511> for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
Affected Products and Versions
Product | Version |
---|---|
IBM NeXtScale Fan Power Controller (FPC) | FHET |
Remediation/Fixes:
Firmware fix versions are available on Fix Central:
<http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/>.
Product | Fix Version |
---|---|
IBM NeXtScale Fan Power Controller (FPC) | |
(ibm_fw_fpc_fhet24n-2.13_anyos_noarch) | FHET24N-2.13 |
Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):
None
References:
Related Information:
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog
Lenovo Product Security Advisories
Acknowledgement
None
Change History
30 November 2017: Original Copy Published
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