SB2025052023 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Virtualization Management Interface
Published: May 20, 2025
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-0480)
CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to memcg does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the filelock_init() function in fs/locks.c. A local user can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-6531)
CWE-ID: CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a race condition when the unix garbage collector's deletion of a SKB races with unix_stream_read_generic() on the socket that the SKB is queued on. A local user can exploit the race and escalate privileges on the system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.