SB2023120175 - IBM Log Analysis update for Logstash



SB2023120175 - IBM Log Analysis update for Logstash

Published: December 1, 2023

Security Bulletin ID SB2023120175
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.


1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-29181)

CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation

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 insufficient validation of user-supplied input passed into the XML and HTML4 SAX parsers. 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-2022-23476)

CWE-ID: CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

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 a NULL pointer dereference error within the Nokogiri::XML::Reader#attribute_hash method when parsing input returned from "xmlTextReaderExpand". A remote attacker can pass specially crafted XML input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.