Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM SDK for Java included with IBM Forms Viewer

Summary

Multiple security vulnerabilities exist in the IBM SDK for Java that is included with several installations of the IBM Forms Viewer.

Vulnerability Details

The IBM Forms Viewer includes installers that bundle and use the IBM SDK for Java. This version of Java includes multiple vulnerabilities as described below:

CVEID: CVE-2014-0457**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the Libraries component has complete confidentiality impact, complete integrity impact, and complete availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 10
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92460 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVEID: CVE-2014-0461**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the Libraries component has complete confidentiality impact, complete integrity impact, and complete availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92467 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVEID: CVE-2014-0429**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the 2D component has complete confidentiality impact, complete integrity impact, and complete availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 10
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92459 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVEID: CVE-2014-0455**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the Libraries component has complete confidentiality impact, complete integrity impact, and complete availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 9.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92466 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVEID: CVE-2014-0454**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the Security component has partial confidentiality impact, partial integrity impact, and partial availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92478 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2013-6954**
DESCRIPTION:** A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially-crafted PNG image data to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/89917 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2013-6629**
DESCRIPTION:** An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially crafted JPEG image data to read uninitialized memory and obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/88783 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2014-2401**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the 2D component could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information resulting in a partial confidentiality impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92485 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Forms Viewer 4.0
IBM Forms Viewer 8.0
IBM Forms Viewer 8.0.1

Remediation/Fixes

Product

| VRMF|APAR|Remediation
—|—|—|—
IBM Forms Viewer| 4.0.0.| LO80905| Install IBM Forms Viewer 4.0.0.3 Update from Fix Central
IBM Forms Viewer| 8.0.0.| LO80905| Install IBM Forms Viewer 8.0.1.1 Update from Fix Central
IBM Forms Viewer| 8.0.1.*| LO80905| Install IBM Forms Viewer 8.0.1.1 Update from Fix Central

Workarounds and Mitigations

This only occurs if the system has installed one of the two editions of the Viewer that include IBM SDK for Java. This includes

* IBM Forms Viewer (complete install)
* IBM Forms Viewer with XML Digital Signature support