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Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK 7 affect IBM Systems Director.

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Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM SDK Java Technology Edition, Version 7 that is used by IBM Systems Director. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in April 2017.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-3539
DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE related to the Java SE, Java SE Embedded Security component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 3.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/124915 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2016-9840
DESCRIPTION: zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic in inftrees.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120508 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2016-9841
DESCRIPTION: zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic in inftrees.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120509 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2016-9842
DESCRIPTION: zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an undefined left shift of negative number. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120510 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2016-9843
DESCRIPTION: zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a big-endian out-of-bounds pointer. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120511 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

From the IBM System Director command line enter smcli lsver to determine the level of IBM System Director installed.

IBM Systems Director:

  • 6.1.0.0
  • 6.1.0.1
  • 6.1.0.2
  • 6.1.0.3
  • 6.1.1.1
  • 6.1.1.2
  • 6.1.1.3
  • 6.1.2.0
  • 6.1.2.1
  • 6.1.2.2
  • 6.1.2.3
  • 6.2.0.0
  • 6.2.0.1
  • 6.2.0.2
  • 6.2.1.0
  • 6.2.1.0
  • 6.2.1.1
  • 6.2.1.2
  • 6.3.0.0
  • 6.3.1.0
  • 6.3.1.1
  • 6.3.2.0
  • 6.3.2.1
  • 6.3.2.2
  • 6.3.3.0
  • 6.3.3.1
  • 6.3.5.0
  • 6.3.6.0
  • 6.3.7.0

Remediation/Fixes

IBM Systems Director version pre 6.3.5 are unsupported and will not be fixed. IBM recommends upgrading to a fixed, supported version of the product.

Follow the instructions mentioned in Technote 823714366 to apply the fix for releases:

  • 6.3.5.0
  • 6.3.6.0
  • 6.3.7.0

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
On-line Calculator v2

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
On-line Calculator v3

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

28 August 2017: Original version 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.

Disclaimer

Review the IBM security bulletin disclaimer and definitions regarding your responsibilities for assessing potential impact of security vulnerabilities to your environment.

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 June 2018

UID

isg3T1025659

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