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Security Bulletin: IBM Event Streams is affected by gettext vulnerability CVE-2018-18751

Created by Emma Humber on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/876556
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Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Event Streams has addressed the following vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-18751
DESCRIPTION: GNU gettext is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a double free flaw in the default_add_message function in read-catalog.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, 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/152105 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Event Streams 2018.3.0
IBM Event Streams 2018.3.1

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Event Streams 2019.1.1 which is available from Passport Advantage.

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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

Initial version March 2019

*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:
29 March 2019

UID

ibm10876556

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