Security Bulletin: IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Security Update February 2021

Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, 8* that are used by Rational Application Developer®. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in February 2021.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-27221
**DESCRIPTION:**Eclipse OpenJ9 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow when the virtual machine or JNI natives are converting from UTF-8 characters to platform encoding. By sending an overly long string, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/195353 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

Rational Application Developer 9.6, Rational Application Developer 9.7

Remediation/Fixes

http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/quickorder?product=ibm%2FRational%2FIBM+Rational+Application+Developer+for+WebSphere+Software&fixids=Rational-RAD-Java8SR6FP25_RAD_RSA-ifix&source=SAR

Workarounds and Mitigations

None