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Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in IBM Java SDK affects IBM InfoSphere Discovery (CVE-2015-7575)

Created by Clyde Mendonca on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/540903
540903

Security Bulletin


Summary

There is a vulnerability in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, Version 6 that is used by IBM InfoSphere Discovery. This vulnerability, commonly referred to as “SLOTH”, was disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in January 2016.

Vulnerability Details

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/UI:U/C:H/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM InfoSphere Discovery, IBM InfoSphere Discovery for Information Integration, and IBM InfoSphere Discovery for zOS, versions 4.1.1 and 4.5 on Windows, and version 4.6 running on all platforms

Remediation/Fixes

Product

VRMFAPARRemediation/First Fix
All InfoSphere Discovery products4.6IT13447--Apply IT13447
All InfoSphere Discovery products4.5IT13447--Upgrade to Discovery 4.6.2.2
--Apply IT13447
All InfoSphere Discovery products4.1.1IT13447--Upgrade to Discovery 4.6.2.2
--Apply IT13447

Workarounds and Mitigations

For CVE-2015-7575:

Users of Java 7 and later can address the issue by updating the /jre/lib/security/java.security file as follows (both steps are required):

· Add MD5 to the jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms property - e.g. jdk.certpath.disabledAlgorithms=MD2, RSA keySize < 1024, MD5

· Add MD5withRSA to the jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms property - e.g. jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms=SSLv3, RC4, DH keySize < 768, MD5withRSA

Java 6 requires code changes in the JSSE component in addition to the java.security file modifications, so upgrading the JDK is the only solution.

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
On-line Calculator v2

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
On-line Calculator v3

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IBM Java SDK Security Bulletin

Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement

CVE-2015-7575 was reported to IBM by Karthikeyan Bhargavan at INRIA in Paris, France

Change History

16 February 2016: 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.

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Internal Use Only

PSIRT 68951

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg21976047

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