Security Bulletin: There is a vulnerability in ICU used by IBM Jazz Reporting Service (CVE-2018-18928)

Summary

There is a vulnerability in ICU used by IBM Jazz Reporting Service(JRS). This vulnerabiliity is addressed in JRS by upgrading to a version of ICU that resolves the issue.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2018-18928
**DESCRIPTION:**International Components for Unicode (ICU) is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an integer overflow in the number::impl::DecimalQuantity::toScientificString() in i18n/number_decimalquantity.cpp. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/152568 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

The recommended solution is to download the appropriate Interim Fix or Fix Pack from Fix Central and apply for each affected product as soon as possible.
Released a iFix version for Jazz Reporting Service 7.0.2 iFix021: To ensure users could protect themselves from this vulnerability, the upgraded version of ICU has been released in this ifix.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None