Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring has applied security fixes for its use of Netty.io

Summary

IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Monitoring has applied security fixes for its use of Netty.io.

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

Upgrade to IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management 2.3 Fix Pack 2 by following the instructions at <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-management/2.3.x?topic=installation-upgrade&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None