Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in IBM® SDK, Java™ Technology Edition affects IBM Elastic Storage System

2021-03-1911:30:46

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ibm

sdk

java

technology

edition

elastic storage system

buffer overflow

remote code execution

application crash

EPSS

0.004

Percentile

74.6%

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Summary

A vulnerability in IBM® SDK, Java™ Technology Edition, used by IBM Elastic Storage System. This issue was disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in Jan 2021.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-27221
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse OpenJ9 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow when the virtual machine or JNI natives are converting from UTF-8 characters to platform encoding. By sending an overly long string, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/195353 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
IBM Elastic Storage System	6.0.0 - 6.0.1.2

Remediation/Fixes

IBM recommends that you fix this vulnerability by upgrading affected versions of IBM Elastic Storage System 3000 and 5000 to the following code levels or higher:

V6.0.2.0 or later.

https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Software%20defined%20storage&product=ibm/StorageSoftware/IBM+Elastic+Storage+Server+(ESS)&release=6.0.0&platform=All&function=all