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Security Bulletin: Multiple denial of service vulnerabilities with Expat may affect IBM HTTP Server shipped with IBM Service Delivery Manager (CVE-2012-0876, CVE-2012-1148, CVE-2016-4472 and CVE-2016-0718)

Created by Shyamala Rajagopalan on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/619345
619345

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM HTTP Server is shipped as components of IBM Service Delivery Manager. Information about a security vulnerability affecting IBM HTTP Server has been published in a security bulletin.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2012-0876
DESCRIPTION:
Expat is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by insufficient randomization of hash data structures. By sending multiple specially-crafted HTTP POST requests to an affected application containing conflicting hash key values, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the consumption of CPU resources.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/73868 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2012-1148
DESCRIPTION:
Expat is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory leak in poolGrow when handling XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application using the vulnerable XML parsing library to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/73867 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2016-4472
DESCRIPTION:
Expat XML parser is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the removal by compilers with certain optimization settings. By using a specially-crafted XML data, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/114683 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)

CVEID: CVE-2016-0718
DESCRIPTION:
Expat is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking when processing malformed XML data. By using the Expat library, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system with the privileges of the victim or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/113408 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

Principal Product and Version(s)

Affected Supporting Product and Version
IBM Service Delivery Manager version 7.2.1 through 7.2.4IBM HTTP Server version 7.0.0.0 through 7.0.0.41

Remediation/Fixes

Principal Product and Version(s)

Affected Supporting Product and VersionAffected Supporting Product Security Bulletin
IBM Service Delivery Manager version 7.2.1 through 7.2.4IBM HTTP Server version 7.0.0.0 through 7.0.0.41Consult the security bulletin Multiple Denial of Service vulnerabilities with Expat may affect IBM HTTP Server for fix information.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

18 October 2016: Original copy 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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Internal Use Only

CVE-2012-0876, CVE-2012-1148, CVE-2016-4472 and CVE-2016-0718

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 June 2018

UID

swg2C1000204