Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in unzip, krb5, tomcat, affect IBM SmartCloud Provisioning for IBM Software Virtual Appliance

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities in unzip, krb5, tomcat, affect IBM SmartCloud Provisioning 2.1 for IBM Software Virtual Appliance (CVE-2014-8139, CVE-2014-8140, CVE-2014-8141, CVE-2014-9636, CVE-2014-5355, CVE-2014-9421, CVE-2014-5352, CVE-2014-5353, CVE-2014-9422, CVE-2014-0227).

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2014-8139**
DESCRIPTION:** Info-ZIP UnZip is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking within the CRC32 verification. A local attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 4.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99371&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2014-8140**
DESCRIPTION:** Info-ZIP UnZip is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the test_compr_eb() function. A local attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 4.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99372&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2014-8141**
DESCRIPTION:** Info-ZIP UnZip is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the getZip64Data() function. A local attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 4.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99373&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2014-9636**
DESCRIPTION:** Info-ZIP unzip is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bound access in extract.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted zip file, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 1.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100264&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2014-5355**
DESCRIPTION:** MIT Kerberos is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in the krb5_recvauth function. By sending a non-null-terminated version string, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the service to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100972&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-2014-9421**
DESCRIPTION:** MIT krb5 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a double-free error in the kadmind daemon. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 9
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100841&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVEID: CVE-2014-5352**
DESCRIPTION:** MIT krb5 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a double-free error in gss_process_context_token(). An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 9
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100842&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVEID: CVE-2014-5353**
DESCRIPTION:** MIT krb5 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference when kadmind is configured to use LDAP for the KDC database. A remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause kadmind to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 3.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99346&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2014-9422**
DESCRIPTION:** MIT krb5 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the acceptance of authentications to two-component server principals. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to impersonate arbitrary users.
CVSS Base Score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100840&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C)

CVEID: CVE-2014-0227**
DESCRIPTION:** Apache Tomcat is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted request in a malformed chunked header to the Web server to cause multiple processing conflicts on the servers. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100751&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM SmartCloud Provisioning 2.1 for IBM Software Virtual Appliance

Remediation/Fixes

If you are running IBM SmartCloud Provisioning 2.1 for IBM Software Virtual Appliance, contact IBM support.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None