Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK and IBM Java Runtime IBM affect IBM Decision Optimization Center and IBM ILOG ODM Enterprise

Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ and IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Versions 6, 7 and 8 used by IBM Decision Optimization Center. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in July 2018.

Vulnerability Details

If you run your own Java code using the IBM Java Runtime delivered with this product, you should evaluate your code to determine whether the complete list of vulnerabilities are applicable to your code. For a complete list of vulnerabilities please refer to the link for “IBM Java SDK Security Bulletin" located in the “References” section for more information.

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-2018-2952 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-2018-12539 DESCRIPTION: Eclipse OpenJ9 could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by the failure to restrict the use of Java Attach API to connect to an Eclipse OpenJ9 or IBM JVM on the same machine and use Attach API operations to only the process owner. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute untrusted native code and gain elevated privileges on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/148389&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Decision Optimization Center v3.9.0.1 and earlier

Remediation/Fixes

IBM ILOG ODM Enterprise
From v3.6 to v3.7.0.2: IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 6 Service Refresh 16 Fix Pack 70 and subsequent releases

IBM Decision Optimization Center
From v3.8 to v3.8.0.1: IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 6 Service Refresh 16 Fix Pack 70 and subsequent releases

From v3.8.0.2: IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 7 Service Refresh 10 Fix Pack 30 and subsequent releases

From v3.9.0.1: IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 8 Service Refresh 5 Fix Pack 20 and subsequent releases

The recommended solution is to download and install the IBM Java SDK as soon as practicable.

Before installing a newer version of IBM Java SDK, please ensure that you:

• Close any open programs that you have running;
• Rename the initial directory of the IBM Java SDK (for example: with a .old at the end),
• Download and install IBM Java SDK.

Here are the detailed instructions for updating IBM Java SDK.

You must verify that applying this fix does not cause any compatibility issues.