Security Bulletin
Summary
There are potential multiple Expat xml parser vulnerabilities in Prospect Core 8.0.7 Server.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2012-0876
DESCRIPTION: Expat is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by insufficient randomization of hash data structures. By sending multiple specially-crafted HTTP POST requests to an affected application containing conflicting hash key values, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the consumption of CPU resources.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/73868 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
CVEID: CVE-2012-1147
DESCRIPTION: Expat is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a resource leak in readfilemap.c when handling XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application using the vulnerable XML parsing library to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/73866 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
CVEID: CVE-2012-1148
DESCRIPTION: Expat is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory leak in poolGrow when handling XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application using the vulnerable XML parsing library to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/73867 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
CVEID: CVE-2016-0718
DESCRIPTION: Expat XML parser is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds read within XML parser. By using a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/113408 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2016-4472
DESCRIPTION: Expat XML parser is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the removal by compilers with certain optimization settings. By using a specially-crafted XML data, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/114683 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVE-ID: CVE-2012-6702
Description: Expat, when used in a parser that has not called XML_SetHashSalt or passed it a seed of 0, could provide weaker than expected security. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using attack vectors involving use of the srand function to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms.
CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/114541 for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)
CVE-ID: CVE-2016-5300
Description: Expat XML parser is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to use sufficient entropy for hash initialization. By using a specially-crafted identifiers in an XML document, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/114435 for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
Affected Products and Versions
These vulnerabilities affect the IBM Prospect Core Server:
- Version 8.0.7.13
Remediation/Fixes
Provide updated Expat libraries version 2.2 .This requires a hotfix to be delivered to customer which will replace the expat library that resides in $FLEXPM_HOME/pm/lib/ln/xpat. The hotfix also provides updated loader binaries as they are built using static expat library. Here is the location link of the hotfix: https://testcase.boulder.ibm.com/fromibm/8.0.7.13_HF01/?T It has been delivered on Sept 15, 2016.
Workarounds and Mitigations
none
Get Notified about Future Security Bulletins
References
Change History
23 September 2016: 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.
Disclaimer
Review the IBM security bulletin disclaimer and definitions regarding your responsibilities for assessing potential impact of security vulnerabilities to your environment.
Was this topic helpful?
Document Information
Modified date:
17 June 2018
UID
swg21988817