Security Bulletin
Summary
An IBM SPSS Statistics ActiveX Control is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web page that passes an overly long argument to the Initialize function, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the victim's browser to crash.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2015-8530
DESCRIPTION: IBM SPSS Statistics 23 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web page that passes an overly long argument to the Initialize function, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the victim's browser to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109209 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L)
Affected Products and Versions
IBM SPSS Statistics 20
IBM SPSS Statistics 21
IBM SPSS Statistics 22
IBM SPSS Statistics 23
IBM SPSS Statistics 24
Remediation/Fixes
VRMF | Remediation | |
IBM SPSS Statistics | 20.0.0.2 | 20.0.0.2-IF0008 |
IBM SPSS Statistics | 21.0.0.2 | 21.0.0.2-IF0010 |
IBM SPSS Statistics | 22.0.0.2 | 22.0.0.2-IF0011 |
IBM SPSS Statistics | 23.0.0.3 | 23.0.0.3-IF0001 |
IBM SPSS Statistics | 24.0.0.0 | 24.0.0.0-IF0003 |
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
This vulnerability was reported to IBM by Wei Gao at IXIA.
Change History
5 May 2016: Original version published
6 May 2016: Corrected acknowledgement text
*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.
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Document Information
Modified date:
16 April 2020
UID
swg21982035