Security Bulletin: IBM Flex System Manager (FSM) is affected by vulnerabilities stemming from FSM?s use of IBM DB2: (CVE-2012-2194, CVE-2012-2196, CVE-2012-2197, CVE-2012-4826, CVE-2013-4033, CVE-2013-5466)

Summary

Security vulnerabilities have been discovered in versions of IBM DB2 that are embedded in IBM FSM.

Vulnerability Details

Abstract

Security vulnerabilities have been discovered in versions of IBM DB2 that are embedded in IBM FSM.

Content

Vulnerability Details:

CVE-ID: CVE-2012-2194

Description: This vulnerability could allow an authenticated user, without proper authorization, to overwrite JAR files.
CVSS Base Score: 9.0
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/76117&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVE-ID: CVE-2012-2196

Description: This vulnerability could allow an authenticated user, without proper authorization, to read XML files.
CVSS Base Score: 4.0
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/76276&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVE-ID: CVE-2012-2197

Description: This vulnerability could allow an authenticated user to cause a stack-based buffer overflow and possibly attain remote code execution.
CVSS Base Score: 8.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/76286&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVE-ID: CVE-2012-4826

Description: This vulnerability could allow an authenticated user to cause a stack-based buffer overflow and possibly attain remote code execution.
CVSS Base Score: 8.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/78817&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4033

Description: This vulnerability could allow a remote authenticated user holding EXPLAIN authority to temporarily gain SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE privilege on a table.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/86093&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVE-ID: CVE-2013-5466

Description: This vulnerability could allow a remote authenticated user to exploit a vulnerability in DB2’s XSLT library to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/88365&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Affected products and versions

• Flex System Manager 1.1.x.x
• Flex System Manager 1.2.0.x
• Flex System Manager 1.2.1.x
• Flex System Manager 1.3.0.x
• Flex System Manager 1.3.1.x
• Flex System Manager 1.3.2.x

Remediation:

IBM recommends that you remediate these vulnerabilities through the following code upgrades

Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):

None known

References:

• Complete CVSS Guide
• On-line Calculator V2
• OpenSSL Project vulnerability website

Related Information:
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement
None

Change History
25 September 2014: Original Copy Published

• The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Flash.

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