HP Security Bulletin HPSBST02980 - A potential security vulnerability has been identified in HP Array Configuration Utility, HP Array Diagnostics Utility, HP ProLiant Array Diagnostics, and SmartSSD Wear Gauge Utility running on Linux. The vulnerability could be exploited locally resulting in elevation of privilege. Revision 1 of this advisory.
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SUPPORT COMMUNICATION - SECURITY BULLETIN
Document ID: c04187357
Version: 1
HPSBST02980 rev.1 - HP Array Configuration Utility, HP Array Diagnostics
Utility, HP ProLiant Array Diagnostics and SmartSSD Wear Gauge Utility
Running on Linux, Local Elevation of Privilege
NOTICE: The information in this Security Bulletin should be acted upon as
soon as possible.
Release Date: 2014-04-07
Last Updated: 2014-04-07
Potential Security Impact: Local elevation of privilege
Source: Hewlett-Packard Company, HP Software Security Response Team
VULNERABILITY SUMMARY
A potential security vulnerability has been identified in HP Array
Configuration Utility, HP Array Diagnostics Utility, HP ProLiant Array
Diagnostics, and SmartSSD Wear Gauge Utility running on Linux. The
vulnerability could be exploited locally resulting in elevation of privilege.
References: CVE-2013-6216, SSRT101452
SUPPORTED SOFTWARE VERSIONS*: ONLY impacted versions are listed.
HP Array Configuration Utility, HP Array Diagnostics Utility, HP ProLiant
Array Diagnostics, and SmartSSD Wear Gauge Utility Software v9.40 or earlier
for Linux
BACKGROUND
CVSS 2.0 Base Metrics
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Reference Base Vector Base Score
CVE-2013-6216 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) 5.0
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Information on CVSS is documented
in HP Customer Notice: HPSN-2008-002
The Hewlett-Packard Company thanks Portcullis Advisories for reporting
CVE-2013-6216 to security-alert@hp.com.
RESOLUTION
HP Array Configuration Utility, HP Array Diagnostics Utility, HP ProLiant
Array Diagnostics, and SmartSSD Wear Gauge Utility Software v9.40 was the
last supported release for those products. HP recommends migrating to HP
Smart Storage Administrator, or HP Smart Storage Administrator Diagnostic
Utility which are not impacted by this vulnerability.
HISTORY
Version:1 (rev.1) - 7 April 2014 Initial release
Third Party Security Patches: Third party security patches that are to be
installed on systems running HP software products should be applied in
accordance with the customer's patch management policy.
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PV = ProCurve
ST = Storage Software
TU = Tru64 UNIX
UX = HP-UX
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