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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2016.1331
Security Bulletin: Rational Systems Tester is affected by
Libxml2 vulnerability (CVE-2015-8710)
26 May 2016
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: IBM Rational Systems Tester
Publisher: IBM
Operating System: Linux variants
Windows
Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Remote/Unauthenticated
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2015-8710
Reference: ESB-2016.1267
ESB-2016.1241
Original Bulletin:
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21983713
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Security Bulletin: Rational Systems Tester is affected by Libxml2
vulnerability (CVE-2015-8710)
Document information
More support for:
Rational Systems Tester
Documentation
Software version:
3.3, 3.3.0.1, 3.3.0.2, 3.3.0.3, 3.3.0.4, 3.3.0.5, 3.3.0.6
Operating system(s):
Linux, Windows
Reference #:
1983713
Modified date:
2016-05-25
Security Bulletin
Summary
Denial-Of-service vulnerability has been discovered in Libxml2 that was
reported on Dec 31, 2015
Vulnerability Details
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-8710
Description: Libxml2 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an
out-of-bounds memory access when parsing an unclosed HTML comment. By using
the ""<!--"" HTML comment without close, a remote attacker could exploit this
vulnerability to trigger an out-of-bounds read and cause the system to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score:
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110076 for more
information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
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
3.3, 3.3.0.1, 3.3.0.2, 3.3.0.3, 3.3.0.4, 3.3.0.5, 3.3.0.6, 3.3.0.7
Remediation/Fixes
Upgrade to Rational Systems Tester Interim Fix 4 for 3.3.0.7.
Rational Systems Tester (3.3.0.7.iFix4, Windows)
Rational Systems Tester (3.3.0.7.iFix4, Linux)
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Complete CVSS v3 Guide
On-line Calculator v3
Related information
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog
Acknowledgement
None
Change History
19 May 2016: Original copy published
*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will
ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of
this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the
Reference section of this Security Bulletin.
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is an "industry open standard
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FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. CUSTOMERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ASSESSING THE IMPACT
OF ANY ACTUAL OR POTENTIAL SECURITY VULNERABILITY.
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