Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in libvorbis affects PowerKVM

Summary

PowerKVM is affected by a vulnerability in libvorbis. IBM has now addressed this vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-5146 DESCRIPTION: libvorbis, as used in Mozilla Firefox, could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an out-of-bounds memory write. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted media file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the browser to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/140404 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

PowerKVM 3.1

Remediation/Fixes

Customers can update PowerKVM systems by using “yum update”.

Fix images are made available via Fix Central. For version 3.1, see <https://ibm.biz/BdHggw&gt;. This issue is addressed starting with v3.1.0.2 update 14.

Workarounds and Mitigations

none