Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Curl used in OS image for RedHat Enterprise Linux for Cloud Pak System (CVE-2018-16842)

Summary

Vulnerability in Curl used in OS image for RedHat Enterprise Linux in Cloud Pak System. OS image for RedHat Enterprise Linux has addresssd vulnerability.

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 for the current score.
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

V3.0.10.0

V3.0.11.0

V3.0.12.0

V3.0.13.0

Remediation/Fixes

For Cloud Pak System V2.2.5 - V2.2.6, V2.3.0.1

for OS Image for Red Hat Linux using RHEL V7,

- from your VM run yum update as appropriate

OR

Apply Cloud Pak System v2.3.1.1

Information on upgrading can be found here: <http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10887959&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None