Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities may affect IBM® WebSphere Real Time

Summary

Java SE issues disclosed in the Oracle April 2017 Critical Patch Update

Vulnerability Details

CVE IDs: CVE-2017-3514 CVE-2017-3512 CVE-2017-3511 CVE-2017-3509 CVE-2017-3544 CVE-2017-3533 CVE-2017-3539 CVE-2017-1289 CVE-2016-9840 CVE-2016-9841 CVE-2016-9842 CVE-2016-9843

This bulletin covers all applicable Java SE CVEs published by Oracle as part of their April 2017 Critical Patch Update. For more information please refer to Oracle’s April 2017 CPU Advisory and the X-Force database entries referenced below.

This bulletin also describes five additional vulnerabilities which affect IBM WebSphere Real Time.

CVEID: CVE-2017-3514**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE AWT component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to take control of the system.
CVSS Base Score: 8.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/124893&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2017-3512**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE AWT component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to take control of the system.
CVSS Base Score: 8.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/124891&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2017-3511**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE JCE component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to take control of the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/124890&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2017-3526**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE JAXP component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a high availability impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/124904&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:H)

CVEID: CVE-2017-3509**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE Networking component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause low confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 4.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/124888&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2017-3544**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE Networking component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/124920&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:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2017-3533**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE Networking component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/124910&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:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2017-3539**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE Security component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 3.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/124915&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2017-1289**
DESCRIPTION:** IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition is vulnerable XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose highly sensitive information or consume memory resources.
CVSS Base Score: 8.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/125150&gt; 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:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2016-9840**
DESCRIPTION:** zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic in inftrees.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120508&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2016-9841**
DESCRIPTION:** zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic in inftrees.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120509&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2016-9842**
DESCRIPTION:** zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an undefined left shift of negative number. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120510&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2016-9843**
DESCRIPTION:** zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a big-endian out-of-bounds pointer. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120511&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

These vulnerabilities affect IBM WebSphere Real Time Version 3 Service Refresh 10 Fix Pack 1 and earlier releases

Remediation/Fixes

The fixes for these vulnerabilities are included in IBM WebSphere Real Time Version 3 Service Refresh 10 Fix Pack 5 and subsequent releases

IBM customers should download WebSphere Real Time updates from Fix Central.

IBM WebSphere Real Time releases can also be downloaded from developerWorks.

APAR numbers are as follows:

IV95261 (CVE-2017-3514)_
IV95262 (CVE-2017-3512)
IV95263 (CVE-2017-3511)
IV95264 (CVE-2017-3509)
IV95265 (CVE-2017-3544)
IV95266 (CVE-2017-3533)
IV95267 (CVE-2017-3539)
IV95456 (CVE-2017-1289)
IV95268 (CVE-2016-9840)
IV95268 (CVE-2016-9841)
IV95268 (CVE-2016-9842)
_IV95268 (CVE-2016-9843)