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Security Bulletin: IBM Security Access Manager Appliance is affected by vulnerabilities in the wget package (CVE-2017-13090, CVE-2017-13089)

Created by Ann-Louise Bolger on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/305017
305017

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Security Access Manager Appliance has addressed the following vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-13090
DESCRIPTION: GNU wget is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the fd_read_body() function in src/retr.c. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP data, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/134199 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:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2017-13089
DESCRIPTION: GNU wget is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the skip_short_body() function in src/http.c. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP data, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/134200 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:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected IBM Security Access Manager Appliance

Affected Versions
IBM Security Access Manager9.0.3.0 - 9.0.4.0 IF1

Remediation/Fixes

Product

VRMF
APAR
Remediation
IBM Security Access Manager9.0.3.0 - 9.0.4.0 IF 1IJ034021. For versions prior to 9.0.4.0, upgrade to 9.0.4.0:
9.0.4-ISS-ISAM-FP0000

2. Apply 9.0.4.0 IF2:
9.0.4.0-ISS-ISAM-IF0002

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

4 April 2018: 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

swg22013885

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