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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2017.1154
Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities may affect IBM
SDK, Java Technology Edition
10 May 2017
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: IBM Java SE
Publisher: IBM
Operating System: UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Windows
Impact/Access: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands -- Remote with User Interaction
Modify Arbitrary Files -- Remote/Unauthenticated
Denial of Service -- Remote/Unauthenticated
Access Confidential Data -- Remote/Unauthenticated
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2017-3544 CVE-2017-3539 CVE-2017-3533
CVE-2017-3526 CVE-2017-3514 CVE-2017-3512
CVE-2017-3511 CVE-2017-3509 CVE-2017-1289
CVE-2016-9843 CVE-2016-9842 CVE-2016-9841
CVE-2016-9840
Reference: ASB-2017.0056
ESB-2017.1069
ESB-2017.1041
ESB-2017.0492
Original Bulletin:
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg22002169
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Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities may affect IBM SDK, Java
Technology Edition
Document information
More support for: Runtimes for Java Technology
Software version: 6.0, 6.1, 7.0, 7.1, 8.0
Operating system(s): AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows, z/OS
Software edition:
Security Bulletin
Summary
Java SE issues disclosed in the Oracle April 2017 Critical Patch Update,
plus five additional vulnerabilities
Vulnerability Details
CVE IDs: CVE-2017-3514 CVE-2017-3512 CVE-2017-3511 CVE-2017-3509
CVE-2017-3544 CVE-2017-3533 CVE-2017-3539 CVE-2017-1289 CVE-2016-9840
CVE-2016-9841 CVE-2016-9842 CVE-2016-9843
This bulletin covers all applicable Java SE CVEs published by Oracle as
part of their April 2017 Critical Patch Update. For more information please
refer to Oracle's April 2017 CPU Advisory and the X-Force database entries
referenced below.
This bulletin also describes five additional vulnerabilities which affect
IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition.
CVEID: CVE-2017-3514
DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE AWT
component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to take control of
the system.
CVSS Base Score: 8.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/124893 for the
current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2017-3512
DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE AWT
component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to take control of
the system.
CVSS Base Score: 8.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/124891 for the
current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2017-3511
DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE JCE
component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to take control of
the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/124890 for the
current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2017-3526
DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE JAXP
component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of
service resulting in a high availability impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/124904 for the
current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2017-3509
DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE
Networking component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause low
confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 4.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/124888 for the
current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2017-3544
DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE Networking
component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality
impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/124920 for the
current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2017-3533
DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE Networking
component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality
impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/124910 for the
current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2017-3539
DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE Security
component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality
impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 3.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/124915 for the
current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2017-1289
DESCRIPTION: IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition is vulnerable XML External
Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. A remote attacker
could exploit this vulnerability to expose highly sensitive information
or consume memory resources.
CVSS Base Score: 8.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/125150 for the
current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2016-9840
DESCRIPTION: zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an
out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic in inftrees.c. By persuading a victim to
open a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could exploit this
vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120508 for the
current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2016-9841
DESCRIPTION: zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an
out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic in inftrees.c. By persuading a victim to
open a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could exploit this
vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120509 for the
current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2016-9842
DESCRIPTION: zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an
undefined left shift of negative number. By persuading a victim to
open a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could exploit this
vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120510 for the
current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2016-9843
DESCRIPTION: zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a
big-endian out-of-bounds pointer. By persuading a victim to open a specially
crafted document, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to
cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120511 for the
current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
Affected Products and Versions
These vulnerabilities affect IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 6
Service Refresh 16 Fix Pack 41 and earlier releases
These vulnerabilities affect IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version
6R1 Service Refresh 8 Fix Pack 41 and earlier releases
These vulnerabilities affect IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 7
Service Refresh 10 Fix Pack 1 and earlier releases
These vulnerabilities affect IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version
7R1 Service Refresh 4 Fix Pack 1 and earlier releases
These vulnerabilities affect IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 8
Service Refresh 4 Fix Pack 2 and earlier releases
Remediation/Fixes
The fixes for these vulnerabilities are included in IBM SDK, Java Technology
Edition, Version 6 Service Refresh 16 Fix Pack 45 and subsequent releases
The fixes for these vulnerabilities are included in IBM SDK, Java Technology
Edition, Version 6R1 Service Refresh 8 Fix Pack 45 and subsequent releases
The fixes for these vulnerabilities are included in IBM SDK, Java Technology
Edition, Version 7 Service Refresh 10 Fix Pack 5 and subsequent releases
The fixes for these vulnerabilities are included in IBM SDK, Java Technology
Edition, Version 7R1 Service Refresh 4 Fix Pack 5 and subsequent releases
The fixes for these vulnerabilities are included in IBM SDK, Java Technology
Edition, Version 8 Service Refresh 4 Fix Pack 5 and subsequent releases
NOTE: The fixes for CVE-2016-9840, CVE-2016-9841, CVE-2016-9842, and
CVE-2016-9843 are not yet available for IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition on
Solaris, HP-UX and Mac OS. The fixes for these platforms will be provided
in a future release.
For detailed information on which CVEs affect which releases, please refer
to the IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Security Vulnerabilities page.
IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition releases can be downloaded, subject to
the terms of the developerWorks license, from here
IBM customers requiring an update for an SDK shipped with an IBM product
should contact IBM support, and/or refer to the appropriate product
security bulletin.
APAR numbers are as follows:
IV95261 (CVE-2017-3514)
IV95262 (CVE-2017-3512)
IV95263 (CVE-2017-3511)
IV95264 (CVE-2017-3509)
IV95265 (CVE-2017-3544)
IV95266 (CVE-2017-3533)
IV95267 (CVE-2017-3539)
IV95456 (CVE-2017-1289)
IV95268 (CVE-2016-9840)
IV95268 (CVE-2016-9841)
IV95268 (CVE-2016-9842)
IV95268 (CVE-2016-9843)
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References
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Related information
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Change History
May 8 2017 : Original Version 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 Security Bulletin.
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