Security Bulletin: Fixes for Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in IBM Security Identity Manager Virtual Appliance available

Summary

There are multiple security vulnerabilities in various components used by IBM Security Identity Manager Virtual Appliance

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2014-3565**
DESCRIPTION:** Net-SNMP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper handling of SNMP traps when started with the “-OQ” option. By sending an SNMP trap message containing a variable with a NULL type, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause snmptrapd to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95638 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2014-3613**
DESCRIPTION:** cURL/libcURL could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to properly detect and reject domain names for IP addresses. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to send cookies to an incorrect site.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/95925 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2014-3707**
DESCRIPTION:** cURL/libcURL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error in the curl_easy_duphandle() function. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to corrupt heap memory and obtain sensitive information or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 6.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/98562 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2014-8121**
DESCRIPTION:** GNU C Library (glibc) is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to properly check if a file is open by DB_LOOKUP in nss_files/files-XXX.c in the Name Service Switch (NSS). By performing a look-up on a database while iterating over it, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to enter into an infinite loop.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/102652 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2014-8150**
DESCRIPTION:** libcURL is vulnerable to CRLF injection, caused by the improper handling of URLs with embedded end-of-line characters. By persuading a victim to click on a specially-crafted URL link using an HTTP proxy, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/100567 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2014-9297**
DESCRIPTION:** Network Time Protocol (NTP) Project NTP daemon (ntpd) could allow a remote attacker to conduct spoofing attacks, caused by insufficient entropy in PRNG. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to spoof the IPv6 address ::1 to bypass ACLs and launch further attacks on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/100004 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2014-9298**
DESCRIPTION:** Network Time Protocol (NTP) Project NTP daemon (ntpd) could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the improper validation of the length value in extension field pointers. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/100005 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2015-1798**
DESCRIPTION:** Network Time Protocol (NTP) Project NTP daemon (ntpd) could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the acceptance of packets that do not contain a message authentication code (MAC) as valid packets wen configured for symmetric key authentication. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using man-in-the-middle techniques to bypass the authentication process.
CVSS Base Score: 5.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/102051 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2015-1799**
DESCRIPTION:** Network Time Protocol (NTP) Project NTP daemon (ntpd) is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when using symmetric key authentication. By sending specially-crafted packets to both peering hosts, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to prevent synchronization.
CVSS Base Score: 5.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/102052 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2015-1819**
DESCRIPTION:** Libxml is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error in the xmlreader when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available memory resources.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107272 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2015-2017**
DESCRIPTION:** The IBM WebSphere Portal is vulnerable to HTTP response splitting attacks. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially-crafted URL to cause the server to return a split response, once the URL is clicked. This would allow the attacker to perform further attacks, such as Web cache poisoning, cross-site scripting, and possibly obtain sensitive infrmation.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/103991 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2015-2730**
DESCRIPTION:** Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to properly handle certain exceptional cases by the Elliptical Curve Cryptography (ECC) multiplication for Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) signature validation in Network Security Services (NSS). By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web site, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to forge signatures.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/104386 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2015-3143**
DESCRIPTION:** libcurl could allow a remote attacker from within the local network to bypass security restrictions, caused by the re-use of recently authenticated connections. By sending a new NTLM-authenticated request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform unauthorized actions with the privileges of the victim.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/102888 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2015-3148**
DESCRIPTION:** libcurl and cRUL could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by improper use of the negotiate authentication method. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass access restrictions and connect as other users.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/102878 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2015-3238**
DESCRIPTION:** Linux-PAM could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error in the _unix_run_helper_binary function in the pam_unix module. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using an overly large password to enumerate usernames and cause the system to hang.
CVSS Base Score: 5.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/106368 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2015-5621**
DESCRIPTION:** Net-SNMP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by incompletely parsed varBind variables being left in the list of variables by the snmp_pdu_parse() function. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash or possibly execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/105232 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2015-7450**
DESCRIPTION:** Apache Commons Collections could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the deserialization of data with Java InvokerTransformer class. By sending specially crafted data, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary Java code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/107918 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
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

IBM Security Identity Manager Virtual Appliance versions 7.0.0.0, 7.0.0.1, 7.0.0.2, 7.0.0.3

Remediation/Fixes

Ensure that the version listed below is installed on the system.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None