Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in snappy-java, Python, postgresql, Golang might affect IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management

Summary

IBM Spectrum Copy Data Management can be affected by vulnerabilities in snappy-java, Python, PostgreSQL, and Golang Go. Vulnerabilities include causing a denial of service condition, causing a CPU denial of service condition, gaining access to the server’s resources without being authenticated, executing arbitrary code as the bootstrap superuser, and executing arbitrary code on the system, as described by the CVEs in the “Vulnerability Details” section.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-43642
**DESCRIPTION:**snappy-java is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by missing upper bound check on chunk length. 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/267079 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-2022-45061
**DESCRIPTION:**Python is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an unnecessary quadratic algorithm exists in one path when processing some inputs to the IDNA (RFC 3490) decoder. By sending a specially-crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a CPU denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/240593 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-2023-40217
**DESCRIPTION:**Python could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by a race condition in the SSLSocket module. When the socket is closed before the TLS handshake is complete, the data is treated as if it had been encrypted by TLS. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass the TLS handshake and inject a malicious client certificate into the connection and gain access to the server’s resources without being authenticated.
CVSS Base score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/264374 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2023-39417
**DESCRIPTION:**PostgreSQL could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a flaw in the extension script. By sending a specially crafted request using @extowner@, @extschema@, or @extschema:…@ inside a quoting construct, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code as the bootstrap superuser.
CVSS Base score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/263270 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-39323
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by improper enforcement of line directive restrictions in the “//go:cgo_” directives. By providing specially crafted input in the linker and compiler flags, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system. Note: The line directive requires the absolute path of the file in which the directive lives, which makes exploiting this issue significantly more complex.
CVSS Base score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268524 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-39325
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncontrolled resource consumption flaw in the net/http and x/net/http2 packages. By sending specially crafted requests using HTTP/2 client, 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/268645 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

Affected Versions|**Fixing
**Level|Platform|**Link to Fix and Instructions
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2.2.0.0 - 2.2.21.0| 2.2.22| Linux| <https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7070590&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None