Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in current releases of the IBM® SDK, Java™ Technology Edition

Summary

Java SE issues disclosed in the Oracle July 2015 Critical Patch Update, plus CVE-2015-1931

Vulnerability Details

CVE IDs: CVE-2015-2613 CVE-2015-2601 CVE-2015-4749 CVE-2015-2625 CVE-2015-1931

DESCRIPTION: This bulletin covers all applicable Java SE CVEs published by Oracle as part of their July 2015 Critical Patch Update. 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-2015-4749**
DESCRIPTION:** An unspecified vulnerability related to the JNDI component could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/104740 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

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)
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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 <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/102967&gt; 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

These vulnerabilities affect IBM SDK, Java 2 Technology Edition, Version 5.0 Service Refresh 16 Fix Pack 11 and earlier releases
These vulnerabilities affect IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 6 Service Refresh 16 Fix Pack 5 and earlier releases
These vulnerabilities affect IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 6R1 Service Refresh 8 Fix Pack 5 and earlier releases
These vulnerabilities affect IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 7 Service Refresh 9 Fix Pack 1 and earlier releases
These vulnerabilities affect IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 7R1 Service Refresh 3 Fix Pack 1 and earlier releases
These vulnerabilities affect IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 8 Service Refresh 1 Fix Pack 1 and earlier releases

Remediation/Fixes

Product

| VRMF| APAR| Remediation/First Fix
—|—|—|—
OMNIbus | 7.3.0.16| IV73279| <http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24039351&gt;
OMNIbus| 7.3.1.14| IV73279| <http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24040714&gt;
OMNIbus| 7.4.0.8| IV73279| <http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24039349&gt;
OMNIbus | 8.1.0.4| IV73279| <http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24039347&gt;

The fixes for these vulnerabilities are included in IBM SDK, Java 2 Technology Edition, Version 5.0 Service Refresh 16 Fix Pack 13 and subsequent releases
The fixes for these vulnerabilities are included in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 6 Service Refresh 16 Fix Pack 7 and subsequent releases
The fixes for these vulnerabilities are included in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 6R1 Service Refresh 8 Fix Pack 7 and subsequent releases
The fixes for these vulnerabilities are included in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 7 Service Refresh 9 Fix Pack 10 and subsequent releases
The fixes for these vulnerabilities are included in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 7R1 Service Refresh 3 Fix Pack 10 and subsequent releases
The fixes for these vulnerabilities are included in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition, Version 8 Service Refresh 1 Fix Pack 10 and subsequent releases

For detailed information on which CVEs affect which releases, please refer to the IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Security Alerts 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.

Workarounds and Mitigations

APAR numbers are as follows:
IV75160 (CVE-2015-2613)_
IV75161 (CVE-2015-2601)
IV75163 (CVE-2015-4749)
IV75166 (CVE-2015-2625)
_IV75182 (CVE-2015-1931)