IBM Security Bulletin: IBM MQ is affected by a potential denial of service to channel processes (CVE-2017-1557) - United States  SECURITY BULLETIN

SUMMARY
 An IBM MQ application with authority to connect to a remote queue manager could send a malicious request that could cause undefined behaviour within the channel process servicing that connection, including a loss of service for other connections being serviced by the same channel process. 

VULNERABILITY DETAILS
CVEID:CVE-2017-1557 [http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1557]
DESCRIPTION:IBM MQ could allow an authenticated user with authority to send a specially crafted request that could cause a channel process to cease processing further requests.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: Seehttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/131547 [https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/131547]for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

AFFECTED PRODUCTS AND VERSIONS
IBM MQ and IBM MQ Appliance v8.0.0.0 to v8.0.0.7 

IBM MQ v9.0.0.0 LTS to v9.0.0.1 LTS 

IBM MQ and IBM MQ Appliance v9.0.1 CD to v9.0.3 CD

REMEDIATION/FIXES
IBM MQ and IBM MQ Appliance v8.0.0.0 to v8.0.0.7 

Apply fix pack 8.0.0.8 [http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22010861] 

IBM MQ v9.0.0.0 LTS to v9.0.0.1 LTS 

Apply fix pack 9.0.0.2 [http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24044038] 

IBM MQ and IBM MQ Appliance v9.0.1 CD to v9.0.3 CD 

Apply IBM MQ 9.0.4 [http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24043348]

WORKAROUNDS AND MITIGATIONS
None

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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
 22 Dec 2017 - Original 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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CVEID:CVE-2017-1557 [http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1557]
DESCRIPTION:IBM MQ could allow an authenticated user with authority to send a specially crafted request that could cause a channel process to cease processing further requests.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: Seehttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/131547 [https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/131547]for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)