Security Bulletin: Public disclosed vulnerability from Apache Commons affects IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer.

Summary

Public disclosed vulnerability CVE-2018-1324 from Apache Commons affects IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer.

Vulnerability Details

CVE Descriptions

CVEID: CVE-2018-1324

DESCRIPTION: A specially crafted ZIP archive can be used to cause an infinite loop inside of Apache Commons Compress’ extra field parser used by the ZipFile and ZipArchiveInputStream classes in versions 1.11 to 1.15. This can be used to mount a denial of service attack against services that use Compress’ zip package.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See _https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/140401 _for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

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| VRMF| APAR| Remediation/First Fix
—|—|—|—
Spectrum LSF Explorer| 10.2| None| See Remediation and Work around

Remediation/Fixes

LSF Explorer 10.2

1. Download LSF Explorer 10.2.0.6 installation package from the following location: http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral.

2. Install the package by LSF Explorer 10.2.0.6 README file.

Workarounds and Mitigations

The only solution is to install product built with fixed Apache Commons.