Denial of service in IBM Cloud Application Performance Managment and IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions

1) Buffer overflow

EUVDB-ID: #VU61671

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 4.6 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-25032

CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption

Exploit availability: No

Description

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 when compressing data. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application, trigger memory corruption and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions: 7.4.0.1 - 7.4.0.2

IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM): 8.1.4

External links

http://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-a-vulneraqbility-in-zlib-affects-ibm-cloud-application-performance-managment-r-esponse-time-monitoring-agent-cve-2018-25032/
http://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6619075

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.