IBM Security Bulletin: IBM MQ Clients can send a specially crafted message that could cause a channel to SIGSEGV. (CVE-2017-1747) - United States  SECURITY BULLETIN

SUMMARY
 A specially crafted message could cause a denial of service in an IBM MQ application consuming messages that the application needs to perform data conversion on. 

VULNERABILITY DETAILS
CVEID: CVE-2017-1747 [http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1747]
DESCRIPTION: A specially crafted message could cause a denial of service in an IBM MQ application consuming messages that the application needs to perform data conversion on.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/135520 [https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/135520] for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) 

AFFECTED PRODUCTS AND VERSIONS
IBM MQ V9 LTS
Maintenance levels 9.0.0.0 - 9.0.0.2 

IBM MQ V9 CD
Maintenance levels 9.0.0 - 9.0.4

REMEDIATION/FIXES
IBM MQ V9 LTS
Apply FixPack 9.0.0.3 [http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24044508] 

IBM MQ V9 CD
Upgrade to IBM MQ version 9.0.5 [http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24043463]

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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
 28 March 2018: Original Version published
29 March 2018: Correction to bulletin to remove HPE Nonstop as affected platform. 

*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. 

DISCLAIMER
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Answer: CVEID: CVE-2017-1747 [http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1747]
DESCRIPTION: A specially crafted message could cause a denial of service in an IBM MQ application consuming messages that the application needs to perform data conversion on.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/135520 [https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/135520] for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)