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Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK affect Rational Business Developer (CVE-2015-7575, CVE-2016-0466)

Security Bulletin


Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, Version 7 and 8 that is used by Rational Business Developer. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in January 2016 and includes the vulnerability commonly referred to as “SLOTH”.

Vulnerability Details


CVEID: CVE-2015-7575

DESCRIPTION: The TLS protocol could allow weaker than expected security caused by a collision attack when using the MD5 hash function for signing a ServerKeyExchange message during a TLS handshake. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using man-in-the-middle techniques to impersonate a TLS server and obtain credentials. This vulnerability is commonly referred to as “SLOTH”.

CVSS Base Score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109415 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/UI:U/C:H/I:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2016-0466

DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the JAXP component could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.

CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109948 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Affected Products and Versions

Rational Business Developer 8.5 - 9.5

Remediation/Fixes

Product

VRMFAPARRemediation/First Fix
Rational Business Developer8.5.x, 9.0.x, 9.1.x，9.5.xNoneRational-RBD-Java8SR2FP10-ifix
Rational-RBD-Java7SR9FP30-ifix

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

<23 February 2016> 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:
02 August 2018

UID

swg21976768

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