Security Bulletin: Security vulnerabilities may affect Go packages that are shipped with IBM CICS TX Advanced.

Summary

Security vulnerabilities may affect Go packages that are shipped with IBM CICS TX Advanced. IBM CICS TX Advanced has addressed the issues.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-45288
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory exhaustion flaw due to flood of CONTINUATION frames in the HTTP/2 protocol stack in the net/http and x/net/http2 packages. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/286962 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)

CVEID:CVE-2024-24786
**DESCRIPTION:**Protocol Buffers protobuf-go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an infinite loop flaw in the rotojson.Unmarshal function when unmarshaling certain forms of invalid JSON. By sending a specially crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/285337 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

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerabilities now by upgrading IBM CICS TX Advanced.

11.1

| Linux|

Download the upgrade from Fix Central

Workarounds and Mitigations

None