Security Bulletin: IBM Security Access Manager for Web is affected by Network Security Services (NSS) vulnerabilities (CVE-2015-7181, CVE-2015-7182, CVE-2015-7183)

Summary

Network Security Services (NSS) is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities.

IBM Security Access Manager for Web is affected by vulnerabilities in nss, nss-util and nspr packages.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-7181**
DESCRIPTION:** Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a use-after-poison in the sec_asn1d_parse_leaf() function. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107814 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:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2015-7182**
DESCRIPTION:** Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking when decoding constructed OCTET STRING. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107815 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:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2015-7183**
DESCRIPTION:** Mozilla Firefox is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an integer overflow in the Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) in PL_ARENA_ALLOCATE. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107816 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Security Access Manager for Web 7.0 appliances, all firmware versions
IBM Security Access Manager for Web 8.0 appliances, all firmware versions
IBM Security Access Manager 9.0 appliances

Remediation/Fixes

The table below provides links to patches for all affected versions. Follow the installation instructions in the README file included with the patch.