IBM Flex System EN6131 40Gb Ethernet / IB6131 40Gb Infiniband Switch Firmware has addressed the following vulnerability in GNU C Library.
Summary
IBM Flex System EN6131 40Gb Ethernet / IB6131 40Gb Infiniband Switch Firmware has addressed the following vulnerability in GNU C Library.
Vulnerability Details:
CVEID: CVE-2016-3706
Description: GNU C Library (glibc or libc6) is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack-based buffer overflow by the getaddrinfo function within sysdeps/posix/getaddrinfo.c. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/114123> 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:L)
Affected Products and Versions
Product | Affected Version |
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IBM Flex System EN6131 40Gb Ethernet / IB6131 40Gb Infiniband Switch Firmware | 3.3-3.5 |
Remediation/Fixes:
Firmware fix versions are available on Fix Central:
<http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/>.
Product | Fixed Version |
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IBM Flex System EN6131 40Gb Ethernet / IB6131 40Gb Infiniband Switch Firmware | |
mlnx_fw_ppc_m460ex-sx-3.6.2002_anyos_noarch | 3.6.2002 |
Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):
None
References:
Related Information:
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog
Lenovo Product Security Advisories
Acknowledgement
None
Change History
14 February 2017: Original Copy Published
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