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Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in Net-SNMP affects IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions (CVE-2015-5621)

Security Bulletin


Summary

Net-SNMP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by incompletely parsed varBind variables being left in the list of variables by the snmp_pdu_parse() function. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code on the system.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-5621
DESCRIPTION:
Net-SNMP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by incompletely parsed varBind variables being left in the list of variables by the snmp_pdu_parse() function. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/105232 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)

Affected Products and Versions

ITCAM for Transactions includes multiple agents; this bulletin applies only to versions 7.4 of the Internet Service Monitoring agent, (ISM).

Remediation/Fixes

Product

VRMFAPARRemediation/First Fix
IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions (Internet Service Monitoring)7.4http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg400003217

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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Change History

20 Mar 2017: 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

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 June 2018

UID

swg22000624