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Security Bulletin: Security vulnerability affects IBM Cloud Object Storage SDK Python (January 2020 Bulletin)

Created by Jewel Chen on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1169080
1169080

Security Bulletin


Summary

Security vulnerability affects IBM Cloud Object Storage SDK Python. The vulnerability has been addressed in the latest SDK 2.6.0 release.

Vulnerability Details

CVE-ID: CVE-2019-18874
Description: psutil (aka python-psutil) through 5.6.5 can have a double free. This occurs because of refcount mishandling within a while or for loop that converts system data into a Python object.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/171612 for more information
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

Affected Product(s) Version(s)
COS SDK Python Prior to 2.6.0

Remediation/Fixes

IBM COS SDK Releases
 IBM COS SDK Releases Link to Fix / Fix Availability Target
COS SDK Python 2.6.0

Workarounds and Mitigations

IBM COS SDK Releases
 IBM COS SDK Releases Link to Fix / Fix Availability Target
COS SDK Python 2.6.0

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

Jan 7 2020: Initial draft

*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 Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 January 2020

UID

ibm11169080

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