IBM Tivoli Monitoring uses zlib compression library in both the General services library and the File Transfer component. This bulletin address several reported vulnerabilities in the zlib compression library.
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-2016-9843**
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)
The TEMS(KMS) and TEMA(KAX) components for IBM Tivoli Monitoring 622 Fix Pack 9, 623 Fix Pack5 and 630 Fix Pack 7 are affected. For IBM Tivoli Monitoring 623 Fix pack 5 and 630 Fix pack 7, the following components are also affected: TEMA(KGL), TEPS(KCQ) and the User Interface Extensions (KUE)
The patches below update the TEMA(ax), TEMS(ms), TEPS(cq) and User Interface(ue) components which are shipped as part of ITM
The technote Upgrading Shared Components for IBM Tivoli Monitoring Agents provides information on updating Shared Libraries.
Fix | VRMF | How to acquire fix |
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6.3.0-TIV-ITM-FP0007-IV97602 | 6.3.0 | |
<http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24043952> | ||
6.2.3-TIV-ITM-FP0005-IV97602 | 6.2.3 | |
6.2.2-TIV-ITM-FP0009-IV97602 | 6.2.2 |
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