Security Bulletin
Summary
There are several vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition that is shipped as part of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) VMWare VI Agent.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2015-2625
DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the JSSE component could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 2.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/104743 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2015-1931
DESCRIPTION: IBM Java Security Components store plain text data in memory dumps, which could allow a local attacker to obtain information to aid in further attacks against the system.
CVSS Base Score: 2.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/102967 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2015-7575
DESCRIPTION: The TLS protocol could allow weaker than expected security caused by a collision attack when using the MD5 hash function for signing a ServerKeyExchange message during a TLS handshake. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using man-in-the-middle techniques to impersonate a TLS server and obtain credentials. This vulnerability is commonly referred to as “SLOTH”.
CVSS Base Score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109415 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:L/A:N)
Affected Products and Versions
|
Principal Product and Version(s) | Product Code |
| IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring for Virtual Environments Agent for VMware VI versions 6.1.0 , 6.1.2 , 6.2.1 , 6.2.2 , 6.2.3 , 7.1 , 7.2 , 7.2.0.2 | KVM |
Remediation/Fixes
VMware agent installs a Java runtime (J6 component) which is not the default Java runtime component installed by ITM framework (default is JM component on windows and JR component on non-windows).
The CVEs listed in the Vulnerability Details section above affect the Java shipped as part of the VMware VI agent.
To remediate the vulnerabilities do the following:
1. Follow the steps in the technote to update the VMware VI agent to use the JRE shipped as a shared component IBM Tivoli Monitoring (default is JM component on windows and JR component on non-windows).
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21883100.
2. Update the shared component Java (CANDLEHOME) using the patch(es) listed:
IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6 JRE Update (6.X.X-TIV-ITM_JRE_CANDLEHOME-20160408 )
Below are the IBM Tivoli Monitoring security bulletins that references the patches:
Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK affect IBM Tivoli Monitoring (CVE-2015-2601,CVE-2015-4749.CVE-2015-2625,CVE-2015-1931 )
and
Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in IBM Java SDK affect IBM Tivoli Monitoring (CVE-2015-7575)
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References
Change History
26 April 2012: Original Version 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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Document Information
Modified date:
23 July 2018
UID
swg21982086