SB2025041539 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Power Hardware Management Console (HMC)
Published: April 15, 2025
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Protection Mechanism Failure (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-46329)
The vulnerability allows a local user to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient implementation of security measures. A local user can bypass implemented security restrictions and elevate privileges on the system.
2) Reliance on undefined behavior (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-20592)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to unexpected behavior of the INVD instruction in some AMD CPUs. A malicious hypervisor can affect cache line write-back behavior of the CPU and modify guest virtual machine (VM) memory.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.