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Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by Open Source XMLsoft Libxml2 Vulnerabilities (CVE-2016-4447 CVE-2016-4448 CVE-2016-4449)

Created by Ofra Shinitzky on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/284267
284267

Security Bulletin


Summary

Open Source XMLsoft Libxml2 Vulnerabilities affects IBM Security Guardium. IBM Security Guardium has fixed these vulnerabilites

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-4447
DESCRIPTION:
 libxml2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a heap-based buffer overflow. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted XML file, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/113522 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2016-4448
DESCRIPTION:
 libxml2 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a format string error. By using a specially crafted html file containing malicious format specifiers, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/113523 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2016-4449
DESCRIPTION:
 libxml2 could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a XML external entity (XXE) error when processing XML data by the XML parser. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/113524 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Security Guardium V 10, 10.1

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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Change History

09/21/2016 Original version published

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PSIRT record 77223

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg21986710