Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in the Golang language affect IBM Event Streams (CVE-2022-28327, CVE-2022-24675, CVE-2022-27536)

Summary

This security vulnerability affects Golang that is used by the IBM Event Streams CLI component

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-28327
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validaiton by the generic P-256 feature in crypto/elliptic. By sending a specially-crafted request with long scalar input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a panic on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/224871 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-24675
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in encoding/pem in the Decode feature. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the program to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/224866 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-27536
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation by the Certificate.Verify function in crypto/x509. By using a specially-crafted certificate, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a TLS client to panic.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/224870 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Event Streams (Continuous Delivery)

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10.0.0, 10.1.0, 10.2.0, 10.3.0, 10.3.1, 10.4.0 10.5.0, 11.0.0, 11.0.1

IBM Event Streams (Extended Update Support) |

10.2.0-eus, 10.2.1-eus (2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4,2.2.5)

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading

IBM Event Streams (Continuous Delivery)

• Upgrade to IBM Event Streams 11.0.2 by following the upgrading and migrating documentation.

IBM Event Streams (Extended Update Support)

• Upgrade to IBM Event Streams 10.2.1-eus (2.2.6) by following the upgrading and migrating documentation.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None