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Note: the current version of the following document is available here:
https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-hpesbgn03722en_us

SUPPORT COMMUNICATION - SECURITY BULLETIN

Document ID: hpesbgn03722en_us
Version: 1

HPESBGN03722 rev.1 - HPE Operations Agent, Local Escalation of Privilege

NOTICE: The information in this Security Bulletin should be acted upon as
soon as possible.

Release Date: 2017-03-30
Last Updated: 2017-03-30

Potential Security Impact: Local: Escalation of Privilege

Source: Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Product Security Response Team

VULNERABILITY SUMMARY
A security vulnerability in Linux kernel, also known as "Dirty COW", has been
addressed in HPE Operations Agent. This vulnerability could be exploited
locally to allow escalation of privilege.

References:

  - CVE-2016-5195 - Linux kernel vulnerability, Dirty "COW" 

SUPPORTED SOFTWARE VERSIONS*: ONLY impacted versions are listed.

  - HPE Operations agent software - v11.11, v11.12, v11.13, v11.14

BACKGROUND

  CVSS Base Metrics
  =================
  Reference, CVSS V3 Score/Vector, CVSS V2 Score/Vector

    CVE-2016-5195
      7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
      7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

    Information on CVSS is documented in
    HPE Customer Notice HPSN-2008-002 here:

https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c01345499

RESOLUTION

HPE has made the following mitigation steps available to resolve the
vulnerability in the impacted versions of HPE Operations Agent.

1. Login to the Operations Agent system with root privileges  
2. Update the system using 'yum update kernel' command
3. Reboot the server using '/sbin/shutdown -r now' command

Please contact HPE Technical Support if any assistance is needed regarding
the mitigation steps.

HISTORY
Version:1 (rev.1) - 30 March 2017 Initial release

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