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Security Bulletin: IBM MQ Operator and Queue manager container images are vulnerable to multiple vulnerabilities from expat, Golang Go, gcc, openssl and libxml.

Security Bulletin


Summary

Multiple issues were identified in Red Hat UBI(ubi8/ubi-minimal) v8.5-x packages "expat", "gcc", "openssl", "libxml" and go-toolset v1.16.x that were shipped with IBM MQ Operator and IBM supplied MQ Advanced container images.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2022-22825
DESCRIPTION:   Expat could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow of lookup in xmlparse.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/216905 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2022-25235
DESCRIPTION:   libexpat is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation in xmltok_impl.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted content with malformed encoding, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/219782 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)

CVEID:   CVE-2022-25315
DESCRIPTION:   libexpat could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow in storeRawNames. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, an attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/219945 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-41772
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds slice situation in the Reader.Open function. By using a specially-crafted ZIP archive containing an invalid name or an empty filename field, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a panic, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/213019 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)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-46143
DESCRIPTION:   Expat could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow of m_groupSize in doProlog in xmlparse.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/216875 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2022-0778
DESCRIPTION:   OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the BN_mod_sqrt() function when parsing certificates. By using a specially-crafted certificate with invalid explicit curve parameters, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause an infinite loop, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/221911 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)

CVEID:   CVE-2022-22824
DESCRIPTION:   Expat could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow of defineAttribute in xmlparse.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/216906 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-45960
DESCRIPTION:   Expat (aka libexpat) is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a realloc misbehavior issue in the storeAtts function in xmlparse.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted XML content, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/216473 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-2022-22823
DESCRIPTION:   Expat could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow of build_model in xmlparse.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/216907 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-42574
DESCRIPTION:   Unicode could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw in the bidirectional algorithm in the unicode specification. By creating a malicious patch containing well placed BiDi characters, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system. Note: This vulnerability also affects Rust.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/212526 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-44716
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncontrolled memory consumption in the header canonicalization cache in net/http. By sending HTTP/2 requests, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available memory resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/216553 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)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-44717
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an error in the syscall.ForkExec() interface. By causing the erroneous closing of file descriptor 0 after file-descriptor exhaustion, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to compromise data integrity and/or confidentiality in a somewhat uncontrolled way in programs linked with and using syscall.ForkExec().
CVSS Base score: 4.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/216563 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2022-25236
DESCRIPTION:   libexpat is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper protection against insertion of namesep characters into namespace URIs in xmlparse.c. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/219784 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)

CVEID:   CVE-2022-22826
DESCRIPTION:   Expat could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow of nextScaffoldPart in xmlparse.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/216904 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2022-22827
DESCRIPTION:   Expat could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow of storeAtts in xmlparse.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/216901 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2022-23852
DESCRIPTION:   Expat (aka libexpat) could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow in the XML_GetBuffer function. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/218007 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2022-22822
DESCRIPTION:   Expat could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow of addBinding in xmlparse.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/216908 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2022-23308
DESCRIPTION:   libxml2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a use-after-free in the ID and IDREF attributes. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/220772 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 MQ Operator CD release  1.8.0
IBM MQ Operator EUS release  1.3.2
IBM Supplied MQ Advanced Queue Manager Container images 9.2.5.0-r1, 9.2.0.4-r1

Remediation/Fixes

Issues listed by this security bulletin are addressed in IBM MQ Operator v 1.8.1 CD release that included IBM supplied MQ Advanced v9.2.5.0 container images and IBM MQ Operator v1.3.3 EUS release that included IBM supplied MQ Advanced v9.2.0.5 container images.

IBM MQ Operator v1.8.1 CD release details:

Image  Fix Version Registry Image Location
ibm-mq-operator v1.8.1 icr.io icr.io/cpopen/ibm-mq-operator@sha256:dc449648c9ad69be7fa8c193ed46566f9e07efedf27ab5bc7ad84e3dd1f0d69f
ibm-mqadvanced-server 9.2.5.0-r2 cp.icr.io cp.icr.io/cp/ibm-mqadvanced-server@sha256:7b451e1040dab4e5b9db74fe6527a026c7e3c8685e208f0c6df6b4da7fc06884
ibm-mqadvanced-server-integration 9.2.5.0-r2 cp.icr.io cp.icr.io/cp/ibm-mqadvanced-server-integration@sha256:9b19e2606394e9629cc6410001be1e2bcc59a0a2c77ddce90a01428adf8db928
ibm-mqadvanced-server-dev 9.2.5.0-r2 icr.io icr.io/ibm-messaging/mq@sha256:367e836c5246fedeab80cc9dba6f19eab3375bb12d61661ff84706977668c492

IBM MQ Operator v1.3.3 EUS release details:

Image  Fix Version Registry Image Location
ibm-mq-operator v1.3.3 icr.io icr.io/cpopen/ibm-mq-operator@sha256:ecacd486bd170ad5ac3494ef3853670cb911cfbac676e175ba8b54b72e12a340
ibm-mqadvanced-server-integration 9.2.0.5-r1-eus cp.icr.io cp.icr.io/cp/ibm-mqadvanced-server-integration@sha256:7902ec5de627a7c6ea09d14ca9a672435bec9923a3d28e5c097cbe8385ba39a6

For remediation, upgrading your current IBM MQ Operator and Queue managers to corresponding versions mentioned above will fix the vulnerabilities.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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Change History

25 Apr 2022: Initial Publication

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 May 2022

UID

ibm16586492