Lenovo Security Advisory

Number: AV18-010
Date: 16 January 2018

Purpose

The purpose of this advisory is to bring attention to a security advisory for Lenovo, IBM RackSwitch and BladeCenter Products.

Assessment

Lenovo has released a security advisory to address a vulnerability known as “HP Backdoor” which could allow an unauthenticated remote user to bypass authentication and gain administrative privileges on a targeted device.

Affected Products:

CVE Reference: CVE-2017-3765

Suggested action

CCIRC recommends that system administrators test and deploy the vendor-released updates to affected applications accordingly.

References

https://support.lenovo.com/ca/en/product_security/len-16095

Note to Readers

In support of Public Safety's mission to build a safe and resilient Canada, CCIRC's mandate is to help ensure the security and resilience of the vital non-federal government cyber systems that underpin Canada's national security, public safety and economic prosperity. As Canada's computer security incident response team, CCIRC is Canada's national coordination centre for the prevention and mitigation of, preparedness for, response to, and recovery from cyber incidents on non-federal government systems. It does this by providing authoritative advice and support, and coordinating information sharing and incident response.

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