Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring has applied security fixes for its use of Golang Go (CVE-2022-24921, CVE-2022-28327, CVE-2022-24675)

Summary

IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring has patched its use of Golang Go due to vulnerabilities with that runtime.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-24921
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation. By using a specially-crafted deeply nested expression, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a goroutine stack exhaustion, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/221503 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-28327
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validaiton by the generic P-256 feature in crypto/elliptic. By sending a specially-crafted request with long scalar input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a panic on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/224871 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-24675
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in encoding/pem in the Decode feature. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the program to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/224866 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management 2.3 Fix Pack 5 by following the instructions in https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-management/2.3.x?topic=installation-upgrade.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None