SB2023111304 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Security Guardium

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SB2023111304 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Security Guardium

Published: November 13, 2023

Security Bulletin ID SB2023111304
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.


1) Incorrect Conversion between Numeric Types (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-3635)

CWE-ID: CWE-681 - Incorrect Conversion between Numeric Types

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 GzipSource does not handle an exception that might be raised when parsing a malformed gzip buffer. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


2) XML Entity Expansion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-28118)

CWE-ID: CWE-776 - Improper Restriction of Recursive Entity References in DTDs ('XML Entity Expansion')

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 attack.

The vulnerability exists due to applications that use kaml to parse untrusted input containing anchors and aliases may consume excessive memory and crash. A remote unauthenticated attacker can pass specially crafted XML data to the application and perform a denial of service attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References