Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK affect IBM Spectrum Scale (CVE-2015-4843, CVE-2015-4805, CVE-2015-4810, CVE-2015-4806, CVE-2015-4871, CVE-2015-4902)

Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, Version 8 that is used by the IBM Spectrum Scale GUI. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates for October 2015.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-4843

DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Libraries component has complete confidentiality impact, complete integrity impact, and complete availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 10
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107342 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVEID: CVE-2015-4805

DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Serialization component has complete confidentiality impact, complete integrity impact, and complete availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 10
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107345 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVEID: CVE-2015-4810

DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Deployment component has complete confidentiality impact, complete integrity impact, and complete availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 6.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107349 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVEID: CVE-2015-4806

DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Libraries component has partial confidentiality impact, partial integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 6.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107350 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2015-4871

DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Libraries component has partial confidentiality impact, partial integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 5.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107351 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2015-4902

DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Deployment component has no confidentiality impact, partial integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107352 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Spectrum Scale V4.2 for Linux Advanced and Standard Editions

Remediation/Fixes

For IBM Spectrum Scale V4.2 for Linux Advanced and Standard Editions, apply 4.2.0.1 at Fix Central
http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Software%2Bdefined%2Bstorage&product=ibm/StorageSoftware/IBM+Spectrum+Scale&release=All&platform=All&function=all

Note: The GUI is not supported on IBM Spectrum Scale for Linux on z Systems

Workarounds and Mitigations

None