Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in ICU affects IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM)

Summary

IBM Chassis Management Module (CMM) has addressed the following vulnerability in ICU.

Vulnerability Details

Summary

IBM Chassis Management Module (CMM) has addressed the following vulnerability in ICU.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2014-9911

Description: International Components for Unicode (ICU) is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by a flaw in the ures_getByKeyWithFallback function in common/uresbund.cpp. By using a specially-crafted uloc_getDisplayName call, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and a denial of service on the system.

CVSS Base Score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120360&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:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected products and versions

Remediation/Fixes

Firmware fix versions are available on Fix Central: <http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.

References

• Complete CVSS V3 Guide
• On-line Calculator V3

Related Information
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog
Lenovo Product Security Advisories

Acknowledgement

None.

Change History
17 May, 2017: Original Version Published

• The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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