Security Bulletin: IBM Event Streams affected by potential buffer overflow in Golang (CVE-2021-38297)

Summary

IBM Event Streams affected by vulnerabilitiy in Golang which may result in a buffer overflow (CVE-2021-38297)

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-38297
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking when invoking functions from WASM modules. By passing very large arguments, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/211507 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

IBM Event Streams (Helm-based releases)

• Download the 2019.4.5 release from IBM Fix Central.
• Upgrade to IBM Event Streams 2019.4.5 by following the upgrading and migrating documentation.

IBM Event Streams (Continuous Delivery)

• Upgrade to IBM Event Streams 10.5.0 by following the upgrading and migrating documentation.

IBM Event Streams (Extended Update Support)

• Upgrade to IBM Event Streams 10.2.1 by following the upgrading and migrating documentation.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None