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Security Bulletin: IBM Event Streams is affected by a vulnerability in the Go runtime (CVE-2020-16845)

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Event Streams is affected by a vulnerability in the Go runtime

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2020-16845
DESCRIPTION:   Go Language is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite read loop in ReadUvarint and ReadVarint in encoding/binary. By sending a specially-crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/186375 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Event Streams2018.3.0
IBM Event StreamsCDR

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade from IBM Event Streams 2019.2.1, IBM Event Streams 2019.4.1 and IBM Event Streams 2019.4.2 to the latest Fix Pack.

Upgrade IBM Event Streams 10.0.0 in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration by downloading IBM Event Streams 10.1.0 in IBM Cloud Pak for Integration 2020.3.1 from IBM Entitled Registry

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

18 Sep 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:
26 September 2020

UID

ibm16338471

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