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Security Bulletin: The Community Edition of IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio is affected by a vulnerability in libcurl (CVE-2018-16840)

Created by Stephane Vincent on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/739961
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Security Bulletin


Summary

The Community Edition of IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio on Windows platform only has addressed the following vulnerability: libcurl is vulnerable to a denial of service.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-16840
DESCRIPTION: cURL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a heap use-after-free flaw in the Curl_close function. 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/152299 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
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 IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio Affected Versions
IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio 12.8

 

Remediation/Fixes

Please replace the initial DLL version 7.54.1.0 with the fixed version 7.60.0.0 available on Fix Central.
MD checksum: 04e1fe45fce57cd33a7b803230d06c35

For information, here is the path of the DLL:

<Installation directory>\cplex\bin\x64_win64\libcurl.dll

 

Workarounds and Mitigations

There is no workaround or mitigation.

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Change History

19 November 2018: Original version published

*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 Information

Modified date:
19 November 2018

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