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Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in XML processing affects IBM InfoSphere Streams (CVE-2015-1819)

Created by Jason Nikolai on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/275951
275951

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM InfoSphere Streams may be vulnerable to a denial of service attack due to the use of Libxml2 (CVE-2015-1819)

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVEID: CVE-2015-1819
DESCRIPTION: Libxml is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error in the xmlreader when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available memory resources.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107272 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

  • IBM InfoSphere Streams Version 1.2.1.0
  • IBM InfoSphere Streams Version 2.0.0.4 and earlier
  • IBM InfoSphere Streams Version 3.0.0.5 and earlier
  • IBM InfoSphere Streams Version 3.1.0.7 and earlier
  • IBM InfoSphere Streams Version 3.2.1.4 and earlier
  • IBM InfoSphere Streams Version 4.0.1.1 and earlier
  • IBM Streams Version 4.1.1.0 and earlier

Remediation/Fixes


NOTE: Fix Packs are available on IBM Fix Central.

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
On-line Calculator v2

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
On-line Calculator v3

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

16 May 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

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg21981066

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