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Rewterz Threat Advisory – IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center denial of service

Severity

Medium

Analysis Summary

CVE-2020-4956

IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center 7.1 and 8.1 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a RPC that allows certain cache values to be set and dumped to a file. By setting a grossly large cache value and dumping that cached value to a file multiple times, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the consumption of all memory resources.

Impact

Denial of service

Affected Vendors

IBM

Affected Products

  • IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center 8.1
  • IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center 7.1
  • IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center 8.1.10.100
  • IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center 7.1.12

Remediation

Refer to the appropriate IBM Security Bulletin for patch, upgrade or suggested workaround information.

IBM Security Bulletin 6404966 (Spectrum Protect Operations Center)

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