Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Python affect IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM) (CVE-2018-1061, CVE-2018-1060)

Summary

Vulnerabilities in Open Source Python affect IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-1060 DESCRIPTION: Python is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by catastrophic backtracking in the pop3lib’'s apop() method. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/145116&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2018-1061 DESCRIPTION: Python is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by catastrophic backtracking in the difflib.IS_LINE_JUNK method. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/145115&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

TADDM 7.3.0.0 - 7.3.0.5

Remediation/Fixes

There are eFixes prepared on top of the latest released FixPack for each stream. Note that the eFix for 7.3.0.5 has also been tested to work correctly on 7.3.0.3 and 7.3.0.4 in lab.

efix_TADDM7305_jython21_253_FP5180802.zip

| 7.3.0.5 | None | Download eFix

Please get familiar with eFix readme in etc/<efix_name>_readme.txt

Workarounds and Mitigations

None