Security Bulletin: IBM MQ Appliance is vulnerable to a denial of service vulnerability (CVE-2020-4375)

Summary

IBM MQ Appliance has resolved a denial of service vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-4375
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM MQ, IBM MQ Appliance, IBM MQ for HPE NonStop could allow an attacker to cause a denial of service due to a memory leak caused by an error creating a dynamic queue.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/179080 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM MQ Appliance 8.0

Apply fixpack 8.0.0.15, or later.

IBM MQ Appliance 9.1 LTS

Apply fixpack 9.1.0.5, or later.

IBM MQ Appliance 9.1 CD

Apply IBM MQ Appliance 9.2, or later.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None