Security Bulletin: CVE-2024-3933 affects IBM® SDK, Java™ Technology Edition

Summary

CVE-2024-3933 affects IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition. An update has been released to address the vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2024-3933
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse Openj9 could allow a local authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to restrict access to a buffer with an incorrect length value when executing an arraycopy sequence while the Concurrent Scavenge Garbage Collection cycle is active and the source and destination memory regions for arraycopy overlap. By sending a specially crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain read and write to addresses beyond the end of the array range.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/292491 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Note: This issue is applicable to IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition on zLinux only.

Remediation/Fixes

8.0.8.25

IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition releases can be downloaded, subject to the terms of the developerWorks license, from the Java Developer Center.

IBM customers requiring an update for an SDK shipped with an IBM product should contact IBM support, and/or refer to the appropriate product security bulletin.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None