Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Version 8 used by IBM Spectrum LSF Process Manager. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in April 2018.

Vulnerability Details

If you run your own Java code using the IBM Java Runtime delivered with this product, you should evaluate your code to determine whether the complete list of vulnerabilities are applicable to your code. For a complete list of vulnerabilities please refer to the link for “IBM Java SDK Security Bulletin" located in the “References” section for more information.

CVEID: CVE-2018-2814 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE VM 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/141970 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-2018-2794 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE Security 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/141950 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-2018-2783 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE Security component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause high confidentiality impact, high integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/141939 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2018-2799 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 low availability impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/141955 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)

CVEID: CVE-2018-2798 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE AWT component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a low availability impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/141954 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)

CVEID: CVE-2018-2797 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE JMX component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a low availability impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/141953 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)

CVEID: CVE-2018-2796 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE Concurrency component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a low availability impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/141952 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)

CVEID: CVE-2018-2795 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE Security component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a low availability impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/141951 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)

CVEID: CVE-2018-2800 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE RMI 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/141956 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-2018-2790 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/141946 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)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Spectrum LSF Process Manager 10.2

Remediation/Fixes

Product

| VRMF | APAR | Remediation/First Fix
—|—|—|—
IBM Spectrum LSF Process Manager | 10.2 | None | See below steps

IBM Spectrum LSF Process Manager 10.2

1. Download IBM JRE 8.0 from the following location: http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral. (The following steps are using x86_64 as an example.)

2. Copy the tar package into the PM server host.

3. Log on the PM server host as root, stop jfd.

jadmin stop

4. On the PM server host, extract new JRE files and replace old folders with new ones.

tar -zxvf ibm-java-jre-8.0-5.15-linux-x86_64.tgz

mv /opt/ppm/10.2/linux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64/jre /opt/ppm/10.2/linux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64/jre-old

mkdir -p /opt/ppm/10.2/linux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64/jre

cp -r ibm-java-x86_64-80/* /opt/ppm/10.2/linux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64/jre

mv /opt/ppm/10.2/linux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64/jre/jre/bin /opt/ppm/10.2/linux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64/jre

mv /opt/ppm/10.2/linux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64/jre/jre/lib /opt/ppm/10.2/linux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64/jre

mv /opt/ppm/10.2/linux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64/jre/jre/plugin /opt/ppm/10.2/linux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64/jre

rm -rf /opt/ppm/10.2/linux2.6-glibc2.3-x86_64/jre/jre

5. On the PM server host, start jfd

jadmin start

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.