Security Bulletin: IBM Security Proventia Network Active Bypass is affected by glibc vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-6485)

Summary

IBM Security Proventia Network Active Bypass has addressed the following vulnerabilities. (CVE-2018-6485)

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-6485 DESCRIPTION: GNU C Library is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an integer overflow in the implementation of the posix_memalign in memalign functions. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/138627&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Security 1G Network Active Bypass firmware version 1.x through 3.x firmware levels 1.0.849 through 3.30.10-37
IBM Security 10G Network Active Bypass firmware versions 1.x through 3.x firmware levels 1.0.1876 through 3.30.10-37

Remediation/Fixes

For IBM Security Proventia Network Active Bypass products at the following firmware versions:

• IBM Security 1G Network Active Bypass firmware version 1.X firmware levels 1.0.849 through 3.30.4-12, 3.30.5-21, 3.30.7-23, 3.30.9-27, 3.30.10-37
• IBM Security 10G Network Active Bypass firmware versions 1.X firmware levels 1.0.1876 through 3.30.5-21, 3.30.7-23, 3.30.9-27, 3.30.10-37

IBM recommends upgrading to 3.30.11, the supported firmware release of the product.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None