Security Bulletin: IBM Netezza Host Management is vulnerable to a published glibc vulnerability (CVE-2013-7423)

Summary

GNU glibc could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the writing of DNS queries to random file descriptors under high load by the getaddrinfo() function. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2013-7423 DESCRIPTION: GNU glibc could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the writing of DNS queries to random file descriptors under high load by the getaddrinfo() function. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 1.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100647 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Netezza Host Management 5.3.5.0 and prior

Remediation/Fixes

IBM Netezza Host Management

| 5.3.5.1| Link to Fix Central
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Workarounds and Mitigations

None