Zero-Day Advisory

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.

References

Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Honggang Ren of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

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