Security Bulletin: OpenLDAP publicly disclosed vulnerabilities affects MessageGateway (CCVE-2020-36230, CVE-2020-36229)

Summary

MessageGateway has addressed the following vulnerability(ies) by updating the version of OpenLDAP.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-36230
**DESCRIPTION:**OpenLDAP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an assertion failure in the X.509 DN parsing in decode.c ber_next_element. By sending a specially-crafted packet, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause slapd to crash, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/195559 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-2020-36229
**DESCRIPTION:**OpenLDAP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the X.509 DN parsing in ad_keystring. By sending a specially-crafted packet, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause slapd to crash, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/195558 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

Product

| VRMF| APAR| Remediation/First Fix
—|—|—|—
IBM WIoTP MessageGateway|

5.0.0.2

|

IT35956

| 5.0.0.2-IBM-IMA-IFITIT35958

Workarounds and Mitigations

None