Security Bulletin: The IBM® Engineering System Design Rhapsody products on IBM Jazz Technology contains additional security fixes for X-Force ID 220800 and CVE-2017-12626

Summary

Due to flaws in Apache POI, IBM® Engineering System Design Rhapsody is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution (X-Force ID 220800) and denial of service (CVE-2017-12626). Both vulnerabilities are fixed in v9.0.1 iFix005.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2017-12626
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache POI is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error while parsing malicious WMF, EMF, MSG and macros and specially crafted DOC, PPT and XLS. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to enter into an infinite loop or an out of memory exception.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/138361 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

**IBM X-Force ID:**220800
**DESCRIPTION:**Apache POI is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by a missing sanity check for length of embedded OLE10Native. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/220800 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

Remediation/Fixes

For the IBM® Engineering Design Rhapsody product versions 9.0.1, IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerabilities by applying a currently available Rhapsody 901 SR1 iFix005 full install.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None