Security Bulletin: IBM Event Endpoint Management is vulnerable to a denial of service in Netty (CVE-2023-34462)

Summary

Operator of IBM Event Endpoint Management is vulnerable to a denial of service in Netty(< 4.1.94) (CVE-2023-34462)

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-34462
**DESCRIPTION:**Netty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw with allocating up to 16MB of heap for each channel during the TLS handshake the SniHandler class. By sending a specially crafted client hello packet, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a OutOfMemoryError and so result in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258713 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading

Upgrade to IBM Event Endpoint Management 11.0.3 by following the upgrading and migrating documentation.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None