Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK, Java™ Technology Edition affected IBM Workflow for Bluemix January 2016 (CVE-2015-7575, CVE-2016-0466, CVE-2016-0475)

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-0475**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE Java SE Embedded and Jrockit related to the Libraries component has partial confidentiality impact, partial integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 5.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109946&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2016-0466**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE Java SE Embedded and Jrockit related to the JAXP component could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a partial availability impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109948&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

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

Affected Products and Versions

These vulnerabilities affected IBM Workflow for Bluemix.

Remediation/Fixes

The production system has been upgraded. A user action is not required.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None