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Security Bulletin: Novalink is impacted by Denial of service vulnerability in WebSphere Application Server Liberty

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Summary

Novalink uses WebSphere Application Server Liberty. There is a denial of service vulnerability in WebSphere Application Server Liberty. This vulnerability has been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2019-12402
DESCRIPTION:   Apache Commons Compress is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the internal file name encoding algorithm. By choosing the file names inside of a specially crafted archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to enter into an infinite loop.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/165956 for the current score.
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

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
NovaLink1.0.0.13
NovaLink1.0.0.15

Remediation/Fixes

The recommended solution is to upgrade to Novalink version 1.0.0.16

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

15 Jul 2020: Initial Publication

*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.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
22 July 2020

UID

ibm16251995