SB2022022131 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Integrated Analytics System
Published: February 21, 2022 Updated: June 3, 2022
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-23840)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input during EVP_CipherUpdate, EVP_EncryptUpdate and EVP_DecryptUpdate calls. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-23841)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error within the X509_issuer_and_serial_hash() function when parsing the issuer field in the X509 certificate. A remote attacker can supply a specially crafted certificate, trigger a NULL pointer dereference error and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-vulnerability-in-openssl-affects-ibm-integrated-analytics-system-6/"
- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-vulnerability-in-openssl-affects-ibm-integrated-analytics-system-6/</a></p><p>
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6557172</p><p><br></p>