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Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in OpenLDAP affects IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions (CVE-2015-6908)

Created by Brian Breathnach on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/544667
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Security Bulletin


Summary

A vulnerability in OpenLDAP 2.4.42 was disclosed on September 10, 2015 by openldap.org as a fix in OpenLDAP 2.4.43 (ITS#8240). OpenLDAP 2.4.44, used by IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions, has addressed the vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-6908

DESCRIPTION: OpenLDAP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an assertion error in the ber_get_next() function. By sending a specially-crafted packet, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the slapd service to crash.

CVSS Base Score: 5.300
CVSS Temporal Score: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/106296 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 Tivoli Composite Application Manager (ITCAM) for Transactions is affected. ITCAM for Transactions contains multiple sub components (Agents). Only the Internet Service Monitoring component (ISM – Agent code ‘IS’) is affected.

Versions:
· 7.4 – Affected by CVE (CVE-2015-6908)
· 7.3 – Affected by CVE (CVE-2015-6908)

Remediation/Fixes

Product

VRMFAPARRemediation/First Fix
7.4.0.1-TIV-CAMIS-IF00037.4.0.1Nonehttp://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=isg400002582
7.3.0.1-TIV-CAMIS-IF00377.3.0.1Nonehttp://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=isg400002628

For older versions of IBM Tivoli Composite Application manager for Transactions (eg 7.1 & 7.2), IBM recommends upgrading to a fixed, supported version/release/platform of the product.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None known

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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

Acknowledgement

None

Change History

16 Mar 2016 Original Version Published
12 Apr 2016 Added 7.3.0.1 Remediation/Fix Link

*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:
17 June 2018

UID

swg21978761

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