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Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability in Golang Go affects IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Managed Services

Security Bulletin


Summary

A security vulnerability in Golang Go affects IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Managed Services.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-34558
DESCRIPTION:   Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to properly assert that the type of public key in an X.509 certificate matches the expected type in the crypto/tls package. By persuading a victim to connect to a specially-crafted TLS server, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a TLS client to panic.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/205578 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Infrastructure ManagementAll

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management 2.3.x Fix Pack 2 by following the instructions at https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-management/2.3.x?topic=upgrade-upgrading-fix-pack-2.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

08 Nov 2021: Initial Publication

*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 Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
09 November 2021

UID

ibm16514825