Security Bulletin: ICU Vulnerability Affects IBM Control Center (CVE-2020-10531)

Summary

International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by an integer overflow.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-10531
**DESCRIPTION:**International Components for Unicode (ICU) for C/C++ is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by an integer overflow in UnicodeString::doAppend() function in common/unistr.cpp. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/177660 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Product |

VRMF

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iFix

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Remediation

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IBM Control Center

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6.2.0.0

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iFix08

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Fix Central - 6.2.0.0

Workarounds and Mitigations

None