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Security Bulletin: Rational Directory Server and Rational Directory Administrator can be affected by vulnerabilities (CVE-2014-4263, CVE-2014-0075, CVE-2014-0096, CVE-2014-0099 and CVE-2014-0119)

Created by Avinash Sable1 on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/251137
251137

Security Bulletin


Summary

This security bulletin is a notice of security vulnerabilities in IBM Runtime Environment, Java Technology Edition and Apache Tomcat server which impacts IBM Rational Directory Server 5.2.x, 5.1.1.x and Rational Directory Administrator 6.x.

Vulnerability Details

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CVEID: CVE-2014-4263
Description: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Security component has partial confidentiality impact, partial integrity impact, and no availability impact.

CVSS Base Score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/94606 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)


CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0075
Description: Apache Tomcat is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper handling of a malformed chunk size as part of a chucked request. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.

CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/93365 for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)


CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0096
Description: Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data by the default server. By sending specially-crafted XML data, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.

CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: Seehttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/93367 for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)


CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0099
Description: Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to check for overflows when parsing content length headers. By sending specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.

CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/93369 for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)


CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0119
Description: Apache Tomcat could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the replacement of the XML parsers used to process XSLTs for the default servlet. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially-crafted application to obtain sensitive information.

CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/93368 for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Product

Version
Rational Directory Server (Tivoli) 5.2 - 5.2.1_iFix003
Rational Directory Server (Apache)5.1.1 - 5.1.1.2_iFix004
Rational Directory Administrator6.0 and 6.0.0.1

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to one of the following releases:

ProductDownload link
IBM Rational Directory Server 5.2 (Tivoli)RDS 5.2.1 iFix004
IBM Rational Directory Server 5.1.1 (Apache)RDS 5.1.1.2 iFix005
IBM Rational Directory Administrator 6.0 or 6.0.0.1RDA 6.0.0.1 iFix001

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

None

Change History

* 26 September 2014: Original copy published

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

Disclaimer

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Internal Use Only

PSIRT # 1823 Record # 39567
PSIRT # 1929 Record # 40638

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg21684768