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Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Apache Ant affect IBM Installation Manager and IBM Packaging Utility

Security Bulletin


Summary

Vulnerabilities have been identified in the Apache Ant shipped with IBM Installation Manager and IBM Packaging Utility. The IBM Installation Manager and IBM Packaging Utility have addressed these applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-36374
DESCRIPTION:   Apache Ant is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-memory error when large amounts of memory are allocated. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted ZIP archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205314 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-36373
DESCRIPTION:   Apache Ant is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-memory error when large amounts of memory are allocated. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted TAR archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205311 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
Capilano (Installation Manager)1.9.x

Remediation/Fixes

 

ProductVRMFAPARRemediation/First Fix
IBM Installation Manager and IBM Packaging Utility1.9.xNo APAR1.9.2 IBM Installation Manager Remediation
1.9.2 IBM Packaging Utility Remediation

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

24 Nov 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:
24 November 2021

Initial Publish date:
24 November 2021

UID

ibm16518994

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