Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been disclosed in Expat, which is installed as part of IBM Tivoli Network Manager (CVE-2019-15903).

Summary

A security vulnerability has been disclosed in the Expat library libexpat, which is installed as part of IBM Tivoli Network Manager version 4.2. Information about this vulnerability has been published in a security bulletin.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-15903
**DESCRIPTION:**libexpat is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a heap-based buffer over-read in XML_GetCurrentLineNumber. By using a specially-crafted XML input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/166560 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Download IBM Tivoli Network Manager 4.2 Fix Pack 9

Workarounds and Mitigations

None