Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Java affect the IBM FlashSystem V9000 (CVE-2015-1931, CVE-2015-2601, CVE-2015-2613, and CVE-2015-2625)

Summary

There are unspecified vulnerabilities revealed in the July 2015 Java Critical Patch Update (CPU) which the IBM® FlashSystem™ V9000 are susceptible. An exploit of these vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information and which could allow a local attacker to obtain information to aid in further attacks against the system.

Vulnerability Details

This bulletin covers the subset of Java SE CVEs published by Oracle as part of their July 2015 Critical Patch Update to which FlashSystem V9000 is susceptible. For more information please refer to Oracle’s July 2015 CPU Advisory and the X-Force database entries referenced below. This bulletin also covers CVE-2015-1931, which describes a vulnerability in the IBM Java Security Components that are shipped as part of the IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition.

CVEID: CVE-2015-2613**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the JCE component could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/104734 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2015-2601**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the JCE component could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/104733 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2015-2625**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the JSSE component could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 2.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/104743 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2015-1931**
DESCRIPTION:** IBM Java Security Components store plain text data in memory dumps, which could allow a local attacker to obtain information to aid in further attacks against the system.
CVSS Base Score: 2.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/102967 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

FlashSystem V9000 including machine type and models (MTMs) for all available code levels. MTMs affected include 9846-AC2 and 9848-AC2.

Remediation/Fixes

You should verify that applying this fix does not cause any compatibility issues.

7.5.1.1 is available @ IBM’s Fix Central**:**V9000 fixes, download 7.5.1.1 or later

Workarounds and Mitigations

None