IBM Security Bulletin: IBM MQ Appliance is affected by a GNU C library (glibc) vulnerability (CVE-2017-8804) - United States  SECURITY BULLETIN

SUMMARY
 IBM MQ Appliance has addressed a vulnerability in GNU C library (glibc). 

VULNERABILITY DETAILS
CVEID:CVE-2017-8804 [http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8804]
DESCRIPTION:glibc is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper handling of buffer deserialization in the xdr_bytes and xdr_string functions. By sending a specially-crafted UDP packet, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause virtual memory allocation, or memory consumption on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: Seehttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/125760 [https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/125760]for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) 

AFFECTED PRODUCTS AND VERSIONS
IBM MQ Appliance 8.0 

Maintenance levels between 8.0.0.0 and 8.0.0.7
IBM MQ Appliance 9.0.x Continuous Delivery (CD) Release 

Continuous delivery updates between 9.0.1 and 9.0.3

REMEDIATION/FIXES
IBM MQ Appliance 8.0 

Apply fixpack 8.0.0.8 [https://www-945.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=ibm~WebSphere&product=ibm/WebSphere/IBM+MQ+Appliance+M2000&function=textSearch&text=8.0.0.8]
IBM MQ Appliance 9.0.x Continuous Delivery (CD) Release 

Apply Continuous Delivery Release 9.0.4 [https://www-945.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=ibm~WebSphere&product=ibm/WebSphere/IBM+MQ+Appliance+M2000&function=textSearch&text=9.0.4]

WORKAROUNDS AND MITIGATIONS
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REFERENCES
Complete CVSS v3 Guide [http://www.first.org/cvss/user-guide] 
On-line Calculator v3 [http://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.0] 

RELATED INFORMATION
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal [http://www.ibm.com/security/secure-engineering/bulletins.html] 
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog [http://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt] 

CHANGE HISTORY
 04 December 2017 Original version 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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Answer: CVEID:CVE-2017-8804 [http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8804]
DESCRIPTION:glibc is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper handling of buffer deserialization in the xdr_bytes and xdr_string functions. By sending a specially-crafted UDP packet, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause virtual memory allocation, or memory consumption on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: Seehttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/125760 [https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/125760]for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)