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Security Bulletin: IBM Forms Viewer may be affected by a known issue with libpng library (CVE-2015-8126, CVE-2015-8472)

Created by Mark Birch on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/275015
275015

Security Bulletin


Summary

An IBM Form (XFDL document) that contains a specially crafted PNG image can crash IBM Forms Viewer. This can occur based on the Viewer's use of this library.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-8126

DESCRIPTION: libpng is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the png_set_PLTE() and png_get_PLTE() functions. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted PNG file, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.

CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/108010 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)


CVEID: CVE-2015-8472

DESCRIPTION: libpng is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the png_get_PLTE() and png_set_PLTE() functions. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted PNG image, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.

CVSS Base Score: 6.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109392 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Forms Viewer 4.0.*
IBM Forms Viewer 8.0.0
IBM Forms Viewer 8.0.1
IBM Forms Viewer 8.1
IBM Forms Viewer 8.2
IBM Forms Viewer 8.2.1

Remediation/Fixes

Product

VRMFAPARRemediation
IBM Forms Viewer4.0.0.*LO87834Download and install LO87834
IBM Forms Viewer8.0.0.*LO87834Download and install LO87834
IBM Forms Viewer8.0.1.*LO87834
IBM Forms Viewer8.1.0.*LO87834Download and install LO87834
IBM Forms Viewer8.2.0.*LO87834Download and install LO87834
IBM Forms Viewer8.2.1.*LO87834Download and install LO87834

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
On-line Calculator v2

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

15 February 2016

*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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Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg21973231

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