SB2023022130 - Multiple vulnerabilities in The IBM FlashSystem 840 



SB2023022130 - Multiple vulnerabilities in The IBM FlashSystem 840

Published: February 21, 2023

Security Bulletin ID SB2023022130
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 3
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4286)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a request-smuggling attack.

The vulnerability exists due to HTTP connector or AJP connector is used, does not properly handle certain inconsistent HTTP request headers. A remote attacker can trigger incorrect identification of a request's length and conduct request-smuggling attacks via multiple Content-Length headers or a Content-Length header and a "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" header.

This vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2005-2090.


2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4322)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to Apache Tomcat processes chunked transfer coding without properly handling a large total amount of chunked data or whitespace characters in an HTTP header value within a trailer field. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service by streaming data.


3) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0033)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a session fixation attack

The vulnerability exists due to org/apache/catalina/connector/CoyoteAdapter.java in Apache Tomcat does not consider the disableURLRewriting setting when handling a session ID in a URL. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted URL and perform a session fixation attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.