Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in PostgreSQL affects PowerKVM

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-10915 DESCRIPTION: PostgreSQL could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an issue with improperly resting internal state in between connections in the libpq library. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass client-side connection security features.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/148225&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:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

PowerKVM v3.1

Remediation/Fixes

Customers can update PowerKVM systems by using “yum update”.

Fix images are made available via Fix Central. See <https://ibm.biz/BdHggw&gt;. This issue is addressed starting with v3.1.0.2 update 15.

Workarounds and Mitigations

none