Security Bulletin: CVE-2022-3509, CVE-2022-3171 may affect IBM CICS TX Advanced

Summary

WebSphere Application Server Liberty is vulnerable to denial of service due to Google protobuf-java . This affects IBM WebSphere Liberty used by IBM CICS TX Advanced. IBM CICS TX Advanced has addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-3509
**DESCRIPTION:**protobuf-java core and lite are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the parsing procedure for textformat data. By sending non-repeated embedded messages with repeated or unknown fields, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause long garbage collection pauses.
CVSS Base score: 5.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/239915 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-3171
**DESCRIPTION:**protobuf-java core and lite are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the parsing procedure for binary and text format data. By sending non-repeated embedded messages with repeated or unknown fields, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause long garbage collection pauses.
CVSS Base score: 5.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/238394 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM recommends you apply these fixes.

Product

| VRMF|APAR|Remediation / First Fix
—|—|—|—
IBM CICS TX Advanced| 10.1| Updated Liberty is shipped along with IFIX image and made available on Fix Central|

Linux: Fix Central Link

IBM CICS TX Advanced| 11.1| Updated Liberty is shipped along with IFIX image and made available on Fix Central|

Linux: Fix Central Link

Workarounds and Mitigations

None