Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM MQ Appliance has addressed a vulnerability in GNU C library (glibc).
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2017-8804
DESCRIPTION: glibc is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper handling of buffer deserialization in the xdr_bytes and xdr_string functions. By sending a specially-crafted UDP packet, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause virtual memory allocation, or memory consumption on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/125760 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:H)
Affected Products and Versions
IBM MQ Appliance 8.0
Maintenance levels between 8.0.0.0 and 8.0.0.7
IBM MQ Appliance 9.0.x Continuous Delivery (CD) Release
Continuous delivery updates between 9.0.1 and 9.0.3
Remediation/Fixes
IBM MQ Appliance 8.0
Apply fixpack 8.0.0.8
IBM MQ Appliance 9.0.x Continuous Delivery (CD) Release
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Change History
04 December 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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Internal Use Only
Advisory ID 8695
Product Record ID 96484
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Document Information
Modified date:
13 August 2019
UID
swg22009796