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Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in Zlib shipped with IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact (CVE-2018-25032)

Security Bulletin


Summary

Zlib is shipped with IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact. Information about a security vulnerability affecting Zlib has been published in a security bulletin.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2018-25032
DESCRIPTION:   Zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory corruption in the deflate operation. By using many distant matches, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/222615 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 Tivoli Netcool Impact7.1.0

Remediation/Fixes

ProductVRMFAPARRemediation
IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact 7.1.07.1.0.26IJ39754Upgrade to IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact 7.1.0 FP26
 

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

27 Jun 2022: 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.

Disclaimer

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
05 July 2022

Initial Publish date:
27 June 2022

UID

ibm16601505

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