Security Bulletin: IBM Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot is affected by vulnerability GNU C Library (CVE-2018-11236)

Summary

IBM Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot has addressed the following vulnerability in GNU C Library.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-11236 DESCRIPTION: GNU glibc is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds of checking by the pathname arguments in the realpath function in stdlib/canonicalize.c. By using specially-crafted pathname arguments, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/143578&gt; 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

Product

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Affected Version

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IBM Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot

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9.6

Remediation/Fixes

Firmware fix versions are available on Fix Central: <http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/&gt;

Product

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Fix Version

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IBM Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) Preboot
(ibm_fw_dsa_dsyte2z-9.65_anyos_32-64)

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dsyte2z-9.65

Workarounds and Mitigations

None