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Security Bulletin: IBM QRadar Network Packet Capture is vulnerable to publicly disclosed vulnerabilities from [All] Python (CVE-2018-1060, CVE-2018-1061)

Security Bulletin


Summary

Python as used by IBM QRadar Network Packet Capture is vulnerable to a denial of service

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-1060
Description: Python is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by catastrophic backtracking in the pop3lib's apop() method. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/145116 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score: *Undefined
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVEID: CVE-2018-1061
Description: Python is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by catastrophic backtracking in the difflib.IS_LINE_JUNK method. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/145115 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score: *Undefined
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

IBM Security QRadar Packet Capture 7.2.0 - 7.2.8 Patch 2
IBM Security QRadar Packet Capture 7.3.0 - 7.3.1 Patch 2

Remediation/Fixes

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

April 17th 2019: First Publish

*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.

Disclaimer

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 April 2019

UID

ibm10881572

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