Security Bulletin: IBM MQ Advanced Cloud Pak is vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the curl command (CVE-2018-16842)

Summary

A vulnerability was identified in cURL that could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information. cURL is included in the IBM MQ Advanced CloudPak for IBM Cloud Private on RedHat OpenShift.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-16842 DESCRIPTION: cURL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a heap-based buffer over-read in the display function in the command line tool. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/152300&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM MQ Advanced Cloud Pak (IBM Cloud Private on RedHat OpenShift)

v2.1.0 - v 2.3.1

Remediation/Fixes

IBM MQ Advanced Cloud Pak (RedHat OpenShift)

Apply Fix IBM-MQ-Adv-Cloud-Pak-2.3.2-RHOS to upgrade to version v2.3.2

Workarounds and Mitigations

none