Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Db2 may affect IBM Storage Protect Server.

Summary

IBM Storage Protect Server uses IBM Db2 and may be affected by multiple vulnerabilities which could lead to denial of service, remote code execution or loss of confidentiality, integrity or availability. CVE-2015-8383, CVE-2015-8381, CVE-2015-8386, CVE-2015-8388, CVE-2015-8385, CVE-2015-8387, CVE-2015-8391, CVE-2015-8390, CVE-2015-8393, CVE-2015-8395, CVE-2015-8394, CVE-2015-2328, CVE-2015-2327, CVE-2020-14155, CVE-2015-8392, CVE-2023-29258, CVE-2023-45178, CVE-2023-46167, CVE-2023-47701, CVE-2023-43020, CVE-2018-25032, CVE-2002-0059, CVE-2022-37434, CVE-2023-40692, CVE-2023-40687, CVE-2023-38727, CVE-2023-38003, CVE-2023-1370, CVE-2022-3171, CVE-2022-3509, CVE-2023-43642, CVE-2023-34462, CVE-2023-32731, CVE-2022-3510. This bulletin identifies the steps to take to address the vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2015-8383
**DESCRIPTION:**PCRE is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by the improper handling of certain repeated conditional groups. By using a specially crafted regular expression, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/108464 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2015-8381
**DESCRIPTION:**PCRE is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by the improper handling of patterns with certain group references by the compile_regex function. By using a specially crafted regular expression, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/108466 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2015-8386
**DESCRIPTION:**PCRE is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by the improper handling of the interaction of lookbehind assertions and mutually recursive subpatterns. By using a specially crafted regular expression, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/108461 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2015-8388
**DESCRIPTION:**PCRE is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by the improper handling ofpattern and related patterns with an unmatched closing parenthesis. By using a specially crafted regular expression, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/108459 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2015-8385
**DESCRIPTION:**PCRE is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by the improper handling of pattern and related patterns with certain forward references. By using a specially crafted regular expression, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/108462 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2015-8387
**DESCRIPTION:**PCRE could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow when subroutine calls are mishandled. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted regular expression to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/108460 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2015-8391
**DESCRIPTION:**PCRE could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the mishandling of certain nesting by the pcre_compile function. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted regular expression to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/108456 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2015-8390
**DESCRIPTION:**PCRE could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the mishandling of substrings in character classes. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted regular expression to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/108457 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2015-8393
**DESCRIPTION:**PCRE could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the mishandling of the -q option for binary files by pcregrep. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted file to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/108454 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:CVE-2015-8395
**DESCRIPTION:**PCRE could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the mishandling of certain references. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted regular expression to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/108452 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2015-8394
**DESCRIPTION:**PCRE could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the mishandling of digits. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted regular expression to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/108453 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2015-2328
**DESCRIPTION:**PCRE is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper handling of patterns with certain internal recursive back references. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted regular expression to cause a segmentation fault.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109276 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-2015-2327
**DESCRIPTION:**PCRE is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper handling of patterns with certain recursion. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted regular expression to cause a segmentation fault.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109275 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-2020-14155
**DESCRIPTION:**PCRE could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow in libpcre. By sending a request with a large number, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/183499 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2015-8392
**DESCRIPTION:**PCRE is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by the improper handling of certain instances of the (?| substring. By using a specially crafted regular expression, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/108455 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-29258
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes Db2 Connect Server) 11.1 and 11.5 is vulnerable to a denial of service through a specially crafted federated query on specific federation objects. IBM X-Force ID: 252048.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/252048 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-45178
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes DB2 Connect Server) 11.5 CLI is vulnerable to a denial of service when a specially crafted request is used. IBM X-Force ID: 268073.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/268073 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-46167
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes Db2 Connect Server) 11.5 federated server is vulnerable to a denial of service when a specially crafted cursor is used. IBM X-Force ID: 269367.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/269367 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)

CVEID:CVE-2023-47701
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes Db2 Connect Server) 10.5, 11.1, and 11.5 could allow an authenticated user with CONNECT privileges to cause a denial of service using a specially crafted query. IBM X-Force ID: 271193.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/271193 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-43020
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes Db2 Connect Server) 10.5, 11.1, and 11.5 is vulnerable to denial of service with a specially crafted query. IBM X-Force ID: 266166.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/266166 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2018-25032
**DESCRIPTION:**Zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory corruption in the deflate operation. By using many distant matches, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/222615 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-2002-0059
DESCRIPTION:

zlib could allow a remote attacker to cause dynamically allocated memory segments to be released twice. A remote attacker could pass specially-crafted compressed data to a program that is linked to a vulnerable version of zlib to cause the corruption of internal memory segments, which could result in a denial of service against the affected program, memory leaks, or the execution of arbitrary code on the system.

CVSS Base score: 7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/8427 for the current score.
CVSS Vector:

CVEID:CVE-2022-37434
**DESCRIPTION:**zlib is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by inflate in inflate.c. By using a large gzip header extra field, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/232849 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2023-40692
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes Db2 Connect Server) 10.5, 11.1, 11.5 is vulnerable to denial of service under extreme stress conditions. IBM X-Force ID: 264807.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/264807 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)

CVEID:CVE-2023-40687
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes Db2 Connect Server) 10.5, 11.1, and 11.5 is vulnerable to denial of service with a specially crafted RUNSTATS command on an 8TB table. IBM X-Force ID: 264809.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/264809 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-38727
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes Db2 Connect Server) 10.5, 11.1, and 11.5 is vulnerable to denial of service with a specially crafted SQL statement. IBM X-Force ID: 262257.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/262257 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-38003
**DESCRIPTION:**IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows (includes Db2 Connect Server) 10.5, 11.1, and 11.5 could allow a user with DATAACCESS privileges to execute routines that they should not have access to. IBM X-Force ID: 260214.
CVSS Base score: 7.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/260214 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-1370
**DESCRIPTION:**netplex json-smart-v2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by not limiting the nesting of arrays or objects. By sending a specially crafted input, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a stack exhaustion and crash the software.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/249885 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-2022-3171
**DESCRIPTION:**protobuf-java core and lite are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the parsing procedure for binary and text format data. By sending non-repeated embedded messages with repeated or unknown fields, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause long garbage collection pauses.
CVSS Base score: 5.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/238394 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-3509
**DESCRIPTION:**protobuf-java core and lite are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the parsing procedure for textformat data. By sending non-repeated embedded messages with repeated or unknown fields, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause long garbage collection pauses.
CVSS Base score: 5.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/239915 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

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-2023-34462
**DESCRIPTION:**Netty is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw with allocating up to 16MB of heap for each channel during the TLS handshake the SniHandler class. By sending a specially crafted client hello packet, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a OutOfMemoryError and so result in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258713 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-32731
**DESCRIPTION:**gRPC could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw when gRPC HTTP2 stack raised a header size exceeded error. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/257688 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-3510
**DESCRIPTION:**protobuf-java core and lite are vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the parsing procedure for Message-Type Extensions. By sending non-repeated embedded messages with repeated or unknown fields, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause long garbage collection pauses.
CVSS Base score: 5.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/239916 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerabilities now by upgrading.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None