Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in NTP affects IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CVE-2015-5300)

Summary

IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) has addressed the following vulnerability in NTP.

Vulnerability Details

Summary

IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) has addressed the following vulnerability in NTP.

Vulnerability Details:

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-5300

Description: Network Time Protocol (NTP) could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to correctly implement the threshold limitation for the ‘-g’ option. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using man-in-the-middle techniques to intercept NTP traffic and make multiple steps larger than the panic threshold.

CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107594&gt;
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes:

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

You should verify applying this fix does not cause any compatibility issues.

Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):

None

References:

• Complete CVSS v3 Guide
• On-line Calculator v3

Related Information:
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement

None.

Change History
07 July 2016: Original Copy Published

• The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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