Security Bulletin
Summary
A vulnerability was found in Oniguruma 6.9.2 that would result in a NULL Pointer Dereference, affecting IBM Cloud Pak for Applications
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2019-13225
DESCRIPTION: oniguruma is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in match_at() in regexec.c. By persuading a victim to compile a specially crafted file and execute its object code, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/166874 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM Cloud Pak for Applications | All |
Remediation/Fixes
IBM Cloud Pak for Applications 4.3.1 uses an updated version of Oniguruma which no longer exposes this vulnerability. No separate APAR is provided.
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
12 Jul 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:
30 July 2021
Initial Publish date:
12 July 2021
UID
ibm16471267