CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2021-38959 — Ibm Spss Statistics security vulnerability
Medium
CVSS 6.2
IBM SPSS Statistics for Windows 24.0, 25.0, 26.0, 27.0, 27.0.1, and 28.0 could allow a local user to cause a denial of service by writing arbitrary files to admin protected directories on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 212046.
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 6.2 (3.0)
- Published
- 2021-11-17
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- windows/system
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Affected products
- ibm / spss_statistics / 24.0.0.0
- ibm / spss_statistics / 25.0.0.0
- ibm / spss_statistics / 26.0.0.0
- ibm / spss_statistics / 27.0.0.0
- ibm / spss_statistics / 27.0.1.0
- ibm / spss_statistics / 28.0.0.0
Matched remediation archetype
Buffer bounds, memory safety, and memory corruption
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Check exposure
- Identify affected native-code versions, build flags, architectures, parsers, codecs, drivers, and input paths in all shipped artifacts.
- Determine whether untrusted data reaches the affected routine and the process privilege, sandbox, and network exposure.
- Confirm statically linked, vendored, firmware, and platform-provided copies, not only package-manager records.
Remediate safely
- Apply the maintained upstream correction or replace the affected component, then rebuild every dependent artifact from clean inputs.
- Adopt bounds-checked interfaces, validated sizes and integer conversions, clear ownership, and memory-safe components where practical.
- Enable supported compiler and runtime hardening and add sanitized tests and fuzz regression seeds derived from non-weaponized fixtures.
Authoritative sources
Complete CVE record and remediation plan
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