Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by Open Source XMLsoft Libxml2 Vulnerabilities (CVE-2016-3705)

Summary

libxml2 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by an out-of-bounds read of xmlParserEntityCheck() and xmlParseAttValueComplex() functions in parser.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted XML file, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-3705 DESCRIPTION: libxml2 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by an out-of-bounds read of xmlParserEntityCheck() and xmlParseAttValueComplex() functions in parser.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted XML file, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 6.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/112885&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Security Guardium V 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.1

Remediation/Fixes

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Remediation/First Fix_|

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IBM Security Guardium Database Activity Monitor | _
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_https://www-945.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=IBM%2BSecurity&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=All&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_10.0p6021_SecurityUpdate&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

Workarounds and Mitigations

None