Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in the IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition affect IBM Performance Management products

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities in the Oracle Java SE and the Java SE Embedded impact the IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:** *CVE-2017-3736
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a carry propagation flaw in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring function bn_sqrx8x_internal(). An attacker with online access to an unpatched system could exploit this vulnerability to obtain information about the private key.
CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/134397&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2017-3732
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a carry propagating bug in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring procedure. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain information about the private key.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/121313&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2016-0705
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a double-free error when parsing DSA private keys. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to corrupt memory and cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111140&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2018-1517
DESCRIPTION: A flaw in the java.math component in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition may allow an attacker to inflict a denial-of-service attack with specially crafted String data.
CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/141681&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2018-1656
DESCRIPTION: The IBM Java Runtime Environment’s Diagnostic Tooling Framework for Java (DTFJ) does not protect against path traversal attacks when extracting compressed dump files.
CVSS Base Score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/144882&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2018-2964
DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE related to the Java SE Deployment component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to take control of the system.
CVSS Base Score: 8.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/146827&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2018-2973
DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE related to the Java SE, Java SE Embedded JSSE component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, high integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/146835&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2018-2952
DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE related to the Java SE, Java SE Embedded, JRockit Concurrency component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a low availability impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base Score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/146815&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2018-2940
DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE related to the Java SE, Java SE Embedded Libraries component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information resulting in a low confidentiality impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/146803&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:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Base Private

IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Advanced Private

IBM Cloud Application Performance Management

Remediation/Fixes

Product

| Product
VRMF | Remediation
—|—|—
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Base Private

IBM Cloud Application Performance Management, Advanced Private | 8.1.4 | The vulnerabilities can be remediated by applying the Core Framework interim fix 8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-CORE-FRAMEWORK-APM-IF0005 to all systems where Cloud APM agents are installed:
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=isg400004069
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management | N/A |

After your subscription is upgraded to V8.1.4, the vulnerabilities can be remediated by either

a) downloading the Core Framework interim fix 8.1.4.0-IBM-APM-CORE-FRAMEWORK-APM-IF0005 to all systems where Cloud APM agents are installed and applying the fix by following the instructions at this link:
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=isg400004069

b) downloading the Cloud APM agent packages for the operating systems that your agents run on and using the downloaded packages to upgrade existing agents to use the updated Core Framework or to install new agents with the updated Core Framework.

Please refer to the link <https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSMKFH/com.ibm.apmaas.doc/install/download_agents_intro.htm&gt; for details
on downloading agent packages from IBM Marketplace

Please refer to the link <https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSMKFH/com.ibm.apmaas.doc/install/install_agent_upgrade.htm&gt; or details on upgrading existing agents.

Please refer to the link <https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSMKFH/com.ibm.apmaas.doc/install/install_intro.htm&gt;
for details on installing new agents.

IBM Monitoring
IBM Application Diagnostics
IBM Application Performance Management
IBM Application Performance Management Advanced | 8.1.3 | The vulnerabilities can be remediated by applying the Core Framework interim fix 8.1.3.0-IBM-IPM-CORE-FRAMEWORK-IPM-IF0008 to all systems where Performance Management agents are installed:
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=isg400004154