Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities have been identified in IBM DB2 shipped with IBM Predictive Maintenance and Quality (CVE-2016-9840, CVE-2016-9841, CVE-2017-1297, CVE-2017-1105)

Summary

IBM DB2 is shipped as components of IBM Predictive Maintenance and Quality. Information about some security vulnerability affecting IBM DB2 have been published their respective security bulletins.

Vulnerability Details

Please consult the security bulletin IBM® DB2® LUW on AIX and Linux Affected by vulnerabilities in zlib (CVE-2016-9840, CVE-2016-9841) for vulnerability details and information about fixes.
Please consult the security bulletin IBM® DB2® LUW’s Command Line Processor Contains Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2017-1297) for vulnerability details and information about fixes.
Please consult the security bulletin Buffer overflow vulnerability in IBM® DB2® LUW (CVE-2017-1105) for vulnerability details and information about fixes.

Affected Products and Versions

Principal Product and Version(s)

| Affected Supporting Product and Version
—|—
IBM Predictive Maintenance and Quality 2.6.0
IBM Predictive Maintenance and Quality 2.5.3
IBM IoT Predictive Maintenance and Optimization 1.0.0| IBM DB2 Enterprise Server Edition V10.5

Remediation/Fixes

1. Stop COGNOS server, CNDS server, IIB server and DB2 server.

For details, refer <https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSTNNL_2.6.0/com.ibm.pmq.doc/c_inst_pmq_stopsolutionservices.html&gt;

2. Get the v10.5fp8_linuxx64_nlpack.tar.gz from installation payload pm_q_svr_2.6_1_l86-64_en.tar.gz, pm_q_svr_2.5.3_1_l86-64_en.tar.gz or pmo_srv_1.0_1_l86-64_en.tar.gz , and unpack v10.5fp8_linuxx64_nlpack.tar.gz to a temp directory, for example: /home/user/tmp.

3. Download the fixpack mentioned in vulnerability details, unpack and install by below command provided in that pack

./installFixPack

4. During the installation, need to input the db2 installtion directory, the default should be, /opt/ibm/db2/V10.5

5. During the installation, need to input path for “Volume label DB2 National Language Package”, then input the temporary path created above, /home/user/tmp/nlpack/, for example

6. Start the servers being stopped. For details, refer

<https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSTNNL_2.6.0/com.ibm.pmq.doc/c_inst_pmq_startsolutionservices.html&gt;