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Security Bulletin: IBM Tivoli Monitoring Basic Services is vulnerable to a denial of service attack in zlib component (CVE-2018-25032)

Security Bulletin


Summary

Fixes a vulnerability reported in the zlib that is used by IBM Tivoli Monitoring for historical data collection (CVE-2018-25032).

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2018-25032
DESCRIPTION:   Zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory corruption in the deflate operation. By using many distant matches, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/222615 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Tivoli Monitoring6.3.0 - 6.3.0.7 (up to 6.3.0.7 Service pack 12)

Remediation/Fixes

 FixVRMFRemediation/Fix
 6.3.0.7-TIV-ITM-SP00136.3.0.7 IBM Tivoli Monitoring Service Pack 6.3.0.7-TIV-ITM-SP0013

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

30 Sep 2022: 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:
30 December 2022

UID

ibm16825735