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Security Bulletin: Netty security vulnerabilities with ZlibDecoders on IBM Watson Machine Learning Server

Security Bulletin


Summary

Netty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by unbounded memory allocation while decoding a ZlibEncoded byte stream in the ZlibDecoders on IBM Watson Machine Learning Server

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2020-11612
DESCRIPTION:   Netty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by unbounded memory allocation while decoding a ZlibEncoded byte stream in the ZlibDecoders. By sending a large ZlibEncoded byte stream, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust memory resources.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/180530 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)
IBM Watson Machine Learning Server on-prem2.0.0

Remediation/Fixes

Fix is available on WMLServer 2.0.0.1 release .
Download WMLS from Passport Advantage: https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/passport-advantage-and-passport-advantage-express

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

21 Apr 2021: 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:
03 May 2021

Initial Publish date:
21 April 2021

UID

ibm16449284