Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in kernel affect Power Hardware Management Console (CVE-2019-11479,CVE-2019-11477 and CVE-2019-11478)

Summary

Power Hardware Management Console is affected by security vulnerabilities in the Linux Kernel. Power Hardware Management Console has addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2019-11478 DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an issue with fragmenting the TCP retransmission queue when processing TCP Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) capabilities. By sending specially-crafted SACKs requests, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause an excess of system resource usage.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/162664&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:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2019-11477 DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an integer overflow when processing TCP Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) capabilities. By sending specially-crafted SACKs requests, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a kernel panic condition.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/162662&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:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2019-11479 DESCRIPTION: Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when processing minimum segment size (MSS). By sending specially-crafted MSS traffic, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause excess usage of system resources.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/162665&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:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Power HMC V8.7.0.0
Power HMC V9.1.910.0

Remediation/Fixes

Remediation/Fixes

The following fixes are available on IBM Fix Central at: <http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/&gt;

Product

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VRMF

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APAR

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Remediation/Fix

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Power HMC

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V8.1.870.0 SP3 ppc

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MB04223

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MH01835

Power HMC

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V8.1.870.0 SP3 x86

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MB04222

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MH01834

Power HMC

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V9.1.930.0 SP1 ppc

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MB04220

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MH01832

Power HMC

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V9.1.930.0 SP1 x86

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MB04219

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MH01831

Workarounds and Mitigations

None