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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2014.1964 Security Bulletin: IBM Software Delivery and Lifecycle Patterns for the glibc vulnerabilities (CVE-2014-5119) 27 October 2014 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: IBM Software Delivery and Lifecycle Patterns Publisher: IBM Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 Impact/Access: Root Compromise -- Existing Account Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2014-5119 Reference: ESB-2014.1820 ESB-2014.1816 ESB-2014.1757 ESB-2014.1749 ESB-2014.1586 ESB-2014.1496 ESB-2014.1479 ESB-2014.1458 Original Bulletin: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21686781 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- Security Bulletin: IBM Software Delivery and Lifecycle Patterns for the glibc vulnerabilities (CVE-2014-5119) Security Bulletin Summary IBM Software Delivery and Lifecycle Patterns requires client action for the glibc vulnerabilities. The GNU C Library (glibc) is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with root privileges. Vulnerability Details Document information More support for: IBM Software Delivery and Lifecycle Patterns General Information Software version: 1.0, 1.0.1 Operating system(s): Linux Reference #: 1686781 Modified date: 2014-10-22 IBM Software Delivery and Lifecycle Patterns ships with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 which is vulnerable to CVE-2014-5119. CVE ID: CVE-2014-5119 Description: The GNU C Library (glibc) is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by an off-by-one error in the __gconv_translit_find() function. By setting the CHARSET environment variable to a malicious value, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with root privileges. CVSS Base Score: 7.2 CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/95044 for the current score CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) Affected Products and Versions IBM Software Delivery and Lifecycle Patterns 1.0 and 1.0.1 Remediation/Fixes IBM strongly recommends you should contact Red Hat to obtain and install fixes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4. Alternatively, if you have access to a Yum update repository, you may update the glibc library by using the command: yum update glibc Workarounds and Mitigations None References Complete CVSS Guide On-line Calculator V2 Related information IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog Acknowledgement None Change History * 22 October 2014: Original copy published *The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. 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