Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in lighttpd affects PowerKVM (CVE-2015-3200)

Summary

PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in lighttpd (CVE-2015-3200). This vulnerability is now fixed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-3200**
DESCRIPTION:** lighttpd could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the improper validation of input. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted base64 string in authentication header to inject lines into log file entries.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/103419 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

PowerKVM v2.1

Remediation/Fixes

Fix is made available via Fix Central (https://ibm.biz/BdEnT8) in 2.1.1 Build 65.1 and all later 2.1.1 SP3 service builds and 2.1.1 fix packs. For systems currently running fix levels of PowerKVM prior to 2.1.1, please see <http://download4.boulder.ibm.com/sar/CMA/OSA/05e4c/0/README&gt; for prerequisite fixes and instructions. Customers can also update from 2.1.1 (GA and later levels) by using “yum update”

Workarounds and Mitigations

None