Security Bulletin: cURL vulnerabilities CVE-2019-5481 CVE-2019-5482 impact IBM Aspera Streaming/IBM Aspera Streaming for Video version 3.9.6.1 and earlier

Summary

cURL vulnerabilities CVE-2019-5481 CVE-2019-5482 impact IBM Aspera Streaming/IBM Aspera Streaming for Video version 3.9.6.1 and earlier. The fix for this set of vulnerabilities was delivered in IBM Aspera High-Speed Transfer Server V4.0.0 and IBM Aspera High-Speed Transfer Endpoint V4.0.0 with streaming license.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-5481
**DESCRIPTION:**cURL libcurl is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a double free flaw during kerberos FTP data transfer. By sending a specially-crafted size of data, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/166941 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2019-5482
**DESCRIPTION:**cURL libcurl is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the tftp_receive_packet function. By sending specially-crafted request containing an OACK without the BLKSIZE option, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 6.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/166942 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

The fix for this set of vulnerabilities was delivered in IBM Aspera High-Speed Transfer Server V4.0.0 and IBM Aspera High-Speed Transfer Endpoint V4.0.0 with streaming license.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None