Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in emacs affects PowerKVM

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-14482**
DESCRIPTION:** GNU Emacs could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by improper validation of user request. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP Content-Type request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/132067 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

PowerKVM 3.1

Remediation/Fixes

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

Fix images are made available via Fix Central. For version 3.1, see https://ibm.biz/BdHggw. This issue is addressed starting with v3.1.0.2 update 11.

Workarounds and Mitigations

none