SB2022100716 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Content Collector
Published: October 7, 2022
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-36373)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when processing TAR archives. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-36374)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when processing ZIP archives. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-multiple-vulnerabilities-may-affect-apache-ant-used-by-content-collector-for-email-content-collector-for-file-systems-content-collector-for-microsoft-sharepoint-and-content-collec/"
- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-multiple-vulnerabilities-may-affect-apache-ant-used-by-content-collector-for-email-content-collector-for-file-systems-content-collector-for-microsoft-sharepoint-and-content-collec/</a><br>
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6825111<br><br></p>