Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in the zlib component affect IBM SPSS Statistics (CVE-2016-9840, CVE-2016-9841, CVE-2016-9842, CVE-2016-9843)

Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in the zlib component used by IBM SPSS Statistics Version 21, 22, 23, and 24.

Vulnerability Details

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

IBM SPSS Statistics 21.0.0.2
IBM SPSS Statistics 22.0.0.2
IBM SPSS Statistics 23.0.0.3
IBM SPSS Statistics 24.0.0.1

Remediation/Fixes

Product

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VRMF

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APAR

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Remediation/First Fix

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IBM SPSS Statistics| 21.0.0.2| None| Install Statistics 21 FP002 IF012
IBM SPSS Statistics| 22.0.0.2| None| Install Statistics 22 FP002 IF013
IBM SPSS Statistics| 23.0.0.3| None| Install Statistics 23 FP003 IF006
IBM SPSS Statistics| 24.0.0.1| None| Upgrade to 24 FixPack 2

Workarounds and Mitigations

None