SB2025052023 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Virtualization Management Interface

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SB2025052023 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Virtualization Management Interface

Published: May 20, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2025052023
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Local access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-0480)

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)

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.

References