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Security Bulletin: Flexera InstallAnywhere DLL-planting vulnerability affects IBM Enterprise Records Installers (CVE-2016-4560)

Created by Daniel Grack on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/280515
280515

Security Bulletin


Summary

InstallAnywhere generates installation executables which are vulnerable to an DLL-planting vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-4560
DESCRIPTION: Flexera InstallAnywhere could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an untrusted search path. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory of a setup-launcher executable file to gain elevated privileges on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/113016 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Enterprise Records 5.2.0

IBM Enterprise Records 5.1.2

IBM Enterprise Records 5.1.1

IBM Enterprise Records 5.1.0

IBM InfoSphere Enterprise Records 4.5.1

Workarounds and Mitigations

To install:
1.    As an administrator, create a new secure directory. The directory must not exist before and only the administrator should have write permission to it.
2.    Unzip or copy the files from your installation media into this new directory.
3.    Rename the file Setup.exe to ier_install.exe. Do not skip this step.
4.    Ensure there are no DLL files in this directory.
5.    Run ier_install.exe from this directory to install the product. Proceed with the installation as normal.

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References

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

July 5, 2016: Initial Publication

*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.

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Internal Use Only

PSIRT product record# 73045

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 June 2018

UID

swg21984159

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