Fortinet Discovers IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook Template Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Summary
Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in IBM i2 Analyst's Notebook.
IBM
i2 Analyst's Notebook arms analysts with multidimensional visual
analysis capabilities so that they can quickly uncover hidden
connections and patterns in data.
A memory
corruption vulnerability has been discovered in IBM i2 Analyst's
Notebook by FortiGuard Labs. The vulnerability exists because the
application fails to handle a crafted "ANT" file which causes an
out-of-bounds memory access. It could allow malicious users to create
code execution scenarios.
Solutions
FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:IBM.i2.Analyst.Notebook.CVE-2020-4550.Memory.Corruption
Released Jul 30, 2020
Users should apply the solution provided by IBM.
Timeline
Fortinet reported the vulnerability to IBM on June 3, 2020.
IBM confirmed the vulnerability on July 31, 2020.
IBM patched the vulnerability on July 31, 2020.