CVE-2023-30440: Security Bulletin: This Power System update is being released to address CVE 2023-30440

Security Bulletin

Summary

A vulnerability was identified internally by IBM related to SRIOV virtual function support in PowerVM. An attacker with privileged user access to a logical partition that has an assigned SRIOV virtual function (VF) may be able to create a Denial of Service of the VF assigned to other logical partitions on the same physical server and/or undetected arbitrary data corruption.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2023-30440
DESCRIPTION: IBM PowerVM Hypervisor could allow a local attacker with control a partition that has been assigned SRIOV virtual function (VF) to cause a denial of service to a peer partition or arbitrary data corruption.
CVSS Base score: 6.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253175 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)

Version(s)

PowerVM Hypervisor

FW860.00 - FW860.B3

PowerVM Hypervisor

FW950.00 - FW950.70

PowerVM Hypervisor

FW1010.00 - FW1010.50

PowerVM Hypervisor

FW1020.00 - FW1020.30

PowerVM Hypervisor

FW1030.00 - FW1030.10

Remediation/Fixes

Customers with the products below should install FW860.B3(860_245) or newer to remediate this vulnerability.

Power 8

1. IBM Power System S812 (8284-21A)

2. IBM Power System S822 (8284-22A)

3. IBM Power System S814 (8286-41A)

4. IBM Power System S824 (8286-42A)

5. IBM Power System S812L( 8247-21L)

6. IBM Power System S822L (8247-22L)

7. IBM Power System S824L (8247-42L)

8. IBM Power System E850 (8408-E8E)

9. IBM Power System E850C (8408-44E)

10. IBM Power System E870 (9119-MME)

11. IBM Power System E880 (9119-MHE)

12. IBM Power System E870C (9080-MME)

13. IBM Power System E880C (9080-MHE)

Customers with the products below should install FW950.71(950_124) or newer to remediate this vulnerability.

Power 9

1. IBM Power System L922 (9008-22L)

2. IBM Power System S922 (9009-22A, 9009-22G)

3. IBM Power System H922 (9223-22H, 9223-22S)

4. IBM Power System S914 (9009-41A, 9009-41G)

5. IBM Power System S924 (9009-42A, 9009-42G)

6. IBM Power System H924 (9223-42H, 9223-42S)

7. IBM Power System E950 (9040-MR9)

8. IBM Power System E980 (9080-M9S)

Customers with the products below should install FW1010.51(1010_159), FW1030.11(1030_052) or newer to remediate this vulnerability.

Power 10

1. IBM Power System E1080 (9080-HEX)

Customers with the products below should install FW1020.31(1020_102), FW1030.11(1030_058) or newer to remediate this vulnerability.

Power 10

1. IBM Power System S1022 (9105-22A)

2. IBM Power System S1024 (9105-42A)

3. IBM Power System S1022s (9105-22B)

4. IBM Power System S1014 (9105-41B)

5. IBM Power System L1022 (9786-22H)

6. IBM Power System L1024 (9786-42H)

7. IBM Power System E1050 (9043-MRX)

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

References

Off

Change History

22 May 2023: Initial Publication

*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.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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