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Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Bash affect IBM SmartCloud Entry Appliance (CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169, CVE-2014-7186, CVE-2014-7187, CVE-2014-6277, CVE-2014-6278)

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Summary

Six Bash vulnerabilities were disclosed in September 2014. This bulletin addresses the vulnerabilities that have been referred to as “Bash Bug” or “Shellshock” and two memory corruption vulnerabilities. Bash is used by IBM SmartCloud Entry appliance.

Vulnerability Details

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-6271

DESCRIPTION: GNU Bash could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by an error when evaluating specially-crafted environment variables passed to it by the bash functionality. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to write to files and execute arbitrary commands on the system.

CVSS Base Score: 10.0
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/96153 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)


CVE-ID: CVE-2014-7169

DESCRIPTION: GNU Bash could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the system, caused by an incomplete fix related to malformed function definitions in the values of environment variables. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using attack vectors involving the ForceCommand feature in OpenSSH sshd, the mod_cgi and mod_cgid modules in the Apache HTTP Server to write to files and execute arbitrary commands on the system.

CVSS Base Score: 10.0
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/96209 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)


CVE-ID: CVE-2014-7186

DESCRIPTION: GNU Bash could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an out-of-bounds memory access while handling redir_stack. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service.

CVSS Base Score: 10.0
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/96237 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)


CVE-ID: CVE-2014-7187

DESCRIPTION: GNU Bash could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an off-by-one-error when handling deeply nested flow control constructs. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service.

CVSS Base Score: 10.0
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/96238 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)


CVE-ID: CVE-2014-6277

DESCRIPTION: GNU Bash could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an incomplete fix related to the failure to properly parse function definitions in the values of environment variables. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using attack vectors involving the ForceCommand feature in OpenSSH sshd, the mod_cgi and mod_cgid modules in the Apache HTTP Server to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service.

CVSS Base Score: 10.0
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/96686 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)


CVE-ID: CVE-2014-6278

DESCRIPTION: GNU Bash could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an incomplete fix related to the parsing of user scripts. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service.

CVSS Base Score: 10.0
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/96687 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Starter Kit for Cloud 2.2.0.

IBM SmartCloud Entry appliance versions 2.3.0, 2.4.0, 3.1.0, and 3.2.0.

Remediation/Fixes

Product

VRMFAPARRemediation/First Fix
IBM Starter Kit for Cloud2.2.0Nonehttp://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?product=ibm/Other+software/IBM+Starter+Kit+for+Cloud&function=fixid&fixids=2.2.0.1-IBM-SKC_APPL-FP001
IBM SmartCloud Entry appliance2.3.0Nonehttp://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?product=ibm/Other+software/IBM+SmartCloud+Entry&function=fixid&fixids=2.3.0.1-IBM-SCE_APPL-FP001
IBM SmartCloud Entry appliance2.4.0Nonehttp://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?product=ibm/Other+software/IBM+SmartCloud+Entry&function=fixid&fixids=2.4.0.1-IBM-SCE_APPL-FP001
IBM SmartCloud Entry appliance3.1.0Nonehttp://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?product=ibm/Other+software/IBM+SmartCloud+Entry&function=fixid&fixids=3.1.0.4-IBM-SCE_APPL-FP06
IBM SmartCloud Entry appliance3.2.0Nonehttp://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?product=ibm/Other+software/IBM+SmartCloud+Entry&function=fixid&fixids=3.2.0.3-IBM-SCE_APPL-FP06

IBM recommends that you review your entire environment to identify vulnerable releases of Bash including your Operating Systems and take appropriate mitigation and remediation actions. Please contact your Operating System provider for more information.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None known

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References

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Acknowledgement

None

Change History

31 October 2014: Updated description, CVSS Base Score, and CVSS Vector for CVE-2014-7186 and CVE-2014-7187.
2 October 2014: Original Version 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.

Disclaimer

Review the IBM security bulletin disclaimer and definitions regarding your responsibilities for assessing potential impact of security vulnerabilities to your environment.

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Document Information

Modified date:
18 July 2020

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