Security Bulletin
Summary
Vulnerabilities in libcurl such as denial of service and man-in-the-middle attacks may affect IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management.
Vulnerability Details
DESCRIPTION: cURL libcurl is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the number of acceptable "links" in the "chained" HTTP compression algorithms. By persuading a victim to connect a specially-crafted server, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/229740 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2022-32208
DESCRIPTION: cURL libcurl is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack, caused by a flaw in the handling of message verification failures. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to launch a man-in-the-middle attack and gain access to the communication channel between endpoints to inject data to the client..
CVSS Base score: 3.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/229742 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management | 2.2.0.0-2.2.16.0 |
Remediation/Fixes
|
IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management |
Fixing |
Platform |
Link to Fix and Instructions |
|
2.2.0.0-2.2.16.0 |
2.2.17 |
Linux |
Workarounds and Mitigations
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References
Change History
03 October 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.
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Document Location
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Document Information
Modified date:
07 October 2022
Initial Publish date:
03 October 2022
UID
ibm16826393