SB2023022009 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM FlashSystem models 840 and 900
Published: February 20, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2023022009
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
2
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Double free error (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-0705)
The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists due to double-free error when parsing DSA private keys. A remote attacker can trigger memory corruption and cause the service to crash.
2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-0797)
The vulnerability allows remote attackers to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption or NULL pointer dereference) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long digit string that is mishandled by the (1) BN_dec2bn or (2) BN_hex2bn function, related to crypto/bn/bn.h and crypto/bn/bn_print.c.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.