Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium Insights is affected by a Netty vulnerability (CVE-2020-11612)

Summary

IBM Security Guardium Insights has addressed the following vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-11612
**DESCRIPTION:**Netty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by unbounded memory allocation while decoding a ZlibEncoded byte stream in the ZlibDecoders. By sending a large ZlibEncoded byte stream, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust memory resources.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/180530 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Product

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VRMF

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Remediation / First Fix

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IBM Security Guardium Insights| 2.0.1| https://www.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage/?mhsrc=ibmsearch_a&mhq=pasport%20advantage

Workarounds and Mitigations

None