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Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar Network Packet Capture is vulnerable to a Publicly disclosed vulnerability from GNU glibc (CVE-2018-11237)

Security Bulletin


Summary

GLIBC as used by IBM QRadar Network Packet Capture is vulnerable to a buffer overflow

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-11237
Description: GNU glibc is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds of checking by the mempcpy function. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/143580 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score: *Undefined
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
 

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Security QRadar Packet Capture 7.2.0 - 7.2.8 Patch 2
IBM Security QRadar Packet Capture 7.3.0 - 7.3.1 Patch 2

Remediation/Fixes

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

April 17th 2019: First Publish

*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

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 April 2019

UID

ibm10880579

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