SB2022110405 - Denial of service in IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis
Published: November 4, 2022
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Infinite loop (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-23437)
CWE-ID: CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop when parsing XML documents. A remote attacker can supply a specially crafted XML document, consume all available system resources and cause denial of service conditions.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.