IBM Spectrum Protect Plus has released instructions for obtaining an update in response to the vulnerabilities known as Spectre and Meltdown

Summary

IBM has released the instructions provided in the Remediation/Fixes section of this bulletin in response to CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5753, and CVE-2017-5754.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-5715

CVEID: CVE-2017-5753

CVEID: CVE-2017-5754

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 10.1.0.

Remediation/Fixes

The remediation for this vulnerability is to upgrade the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus virtual machine image operating system in an environment that has access to the internet using the following procedure. This procedure can be performed in either a VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V environment.

Root access to the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus virtual machine image is required.

1. Create a virtual machine snapshot of your environment before updating. This ensures that you can roll back to a previous version of the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus virtual machine image if errors occur during the upgrade procedure.2. Log on to the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus virtual machine image through a command prompt.
   
   In a VMware environment:
   Select the virtual machine image where IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is deployed. In the Summary tab, select Open Console and click in the console. Login as the root user.In a Hyper-V environment:
   Select the virtual machine image where IBM Spectrum Protect Plus is deployed. Right-click the virtual machine, then select Connect. Login as the root user.The virtual machine image must be connected to the internet. Work with your network administrator to ensure internet access is available to the virtual machine image.

   3.Perform the following procedure to upgrade CentOS.

   Enable the yum repository on the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus virtual machine image through the following command:
   $ sed -i “s#enabled=0#enabled=1#g” /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

   Run the update through the following command:
   $ yum update –disablerepo=”*” –enablerepo=updates –enablerepo=base –exclude=postgresql*

   Note that the update procedure will take several minutes.

   4. To verify the CVE, enter the following commands and view the output:
   $ rqm –q –changelog kernel | egrep ‘CVE-2017-5715’
   $ rqm –q –changelog kernel | egrep ‘CVE-2017-5753’
   $ rqm –q –changelog kernel | egrep ‘CVE-2017-5754’

   5. Disable the yum repository through the following command:
   $ sed -i “s#enabled=1#enabled=0#g” /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

   6. Reboot the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus virtual machine image.

   Once complete, log in to the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus user interface and ensure basic operations complete successfully.

   Workarounds and Mitigations

   None

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   References

   Complete CVSS v3 Guide
   On-line Calculator v3

   Related information

   IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
   IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

   Acknowledgement

   The vulnerability was reported to IBM by Google Project Zero.

   Change History

   05 February 2018 – Original version published

   *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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