Security Bulletin: WebSphere Message Broker and IBM Integration Bus are affected by Open Source Tomcat vulnerability (CVE-2014-0227)

Summary

WebSphere Message Broker and IBM Integration Bus are affected by Open Source Apache Tomcat vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2014-0227 **
DESCRIPTION:** Apache Tomcat is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted request in a malformed chunked header to the Web server to cause multiple processing conflicts on the servers. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to poison the web cache, bypass web application firewall protection, and conduct XSS attacks.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100751 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

WebSphere Message Broker V8.0 and V7.0

Remediation/Fixes

Product

| VRMF|APAR|Remediation/Fix
—|—|—|—
IBM Integration Bus| V9.0
| IT07182 | An interim fix is available from IBM Fix Central for all platforms.
http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=ibm~WebSphere&product=ibm/WebSphere/Integration+Bus&release=All&platform=All&function=aparId&apars=IT07182

The APAR is targeted to be available in fix pack 9.0.0.4
WebSphere Message Broker
| V8.0
| IT07182 | An interim fix is available from IBM Fix Central for all platforms.
http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=ibm~WebSphere&product=ibm/WebSphere/WebSphere+Message+Broker&release=All&platform=All&function=aparId&apars=IT07182

The APAR is targeted to be available in fix pack 8.0.0.7.
WebSphere Message Broker
| V7.0
| IT07182 | An interim fix is available from IBM Fix Central for all platforms.
http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=ibm~WebSphere&product=ibm/WebSphere/WebSphere+Message+Broker&release=All&platform=All&function=aparId&apars=IT07182

The APAR is targeted to be available in fix pack 7.0.0.8.

The planned maintenance release dates for WebSphere Message Broker and IBM Integration Bus are available at :
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=849&uid=swg27006308

Workarounds and Mitigations

None known