Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in IBM Java Runtime and Golang Go affect IBM Spectrum Protect Server (CVE-2021-35578, CVE-2021-44716, CVE-2021-44717)

Summary

The IBM Spectrum Protect Server might be affected by vulnerabilties in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ and Golang Go such as denial of service and bypassing security restrictions. The Java vulnerability was disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in October 2021. UPDATED: March 14, 2022 - The fixing level for these CVEs has been changed to 8.1.14.100.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-35578
**DESCRIPTION:**An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the JSSE 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/211654 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2021-44716
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an uncontrolled memory consumption in the header canonicalization cache in net/http. By sending HTTP/2 requests, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available memory resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/216553 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2021-44717
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an error in the syscall.ForkExec() interface. By causing the erroneous closing of file descriptor 0 after file-descriptor exhaustion, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to compromise data integrity and/or confidentiality in a somewhat uncontrolled way in programs linked with and using syscall.ForkExec().
CVSS Base score: 4.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/216563 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

8.1.0.000-8.1.13.xxx (Java CVE)
8.1.7.000-8.1.13.xxx (Golang Go CVEs)

Remediation/Fixes

_IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center Affected Versions
_|Fixing
Level|Platform|_Link to Fix and Instructions
_
—|—|—|—
8.1.0.000-8.1.13.xxx (Java CVE)
8.1.7.000-8.1.13.xxx (Go CVEs)| 8.1.14.100| AIX
Linux
Windows| http://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6562367

Workarounds and Mitigations

None