Security Bulletin
Summary
Open Source zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service. By persuading a user to open a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2016-9840
DESCRIPTION: zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic in inftrees.c. By persuading a user 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 out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic in inftrees.c. By persuading a user 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 user 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 user 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
IBM WebSphere MQ V7.1
IBM WebSphere MQ 7.1.0.0 - 7.1.0.8 maintenance levels
IBM WebSphere MQ V7.5
IBM WebSphere MQ 7.5.0.0 - 7.5.0.7 maintenance levels
IBM MQ V8
IBM MQ 8.0.0.0 - 8.0.0.6 maintenance levels
IBM MQ Appliance V8
IBM MQ Appliance 8.0.0.0 - 8.0.0.6 maintenance levels
IBM MQ V9 LTS
IBM MQ V9.0.0.0 only
IBM MQ V9 CD
IBM MQ V9.0.1 and V9.0.2
IBM MQ Appliance V9 CD
IBM MQ Appliance V9.0.1 and V9.0.2
Remediation/Fixes
IBM WebSphere MQ V7.1
IBM WebSphere MQ V7.5
IBM MQ V8
IBM MQ Appliance V8
Apply Fix Pack 8.0.0.7 for MQ Appliance
IBM MQ V9 LTS
IBM MQ V9 CD
IBM MQ Appliance V9 CD
Upgrade to IBM MQ Appliance 9.0.3
Workarounds and Mitigations
All Versions
Disable Channel Compression
Get Notified about Future Security Bulletins
References
Change History
21 November 2017: Added 7.1 fix details
13 July 2017: Added 8.0 & 9.0 fix details
5 July 2017: Added 7.5 fix details
16 June 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
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Document Information
Modified date:
30 August 2019
UID
swg22001520