Security Bulletin
Summary
Vulnerabilities in Open Source Python affect IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2016-5699
DESCRIPTION: urllib2 and urllib for Python are vulnerable to HTTP header injection, caused by improper validation of input. By persuading a victim to visit a specially-crafted Web page, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to inject arbitrary HTTP headers, which will allow the attacker to conduct various attacks against the vulnerable system, including cross-site scripting, cache poisoning or session hijacking.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/114200 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2016-5636
DESCRIPTION: zipimport module for Python is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the get_data() function in zipimport.c. A remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/114309 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
Affected Products and Versions
TADDM 7.2.2.0 - 7.2.2.5
TADDM 7.3.0.0 - 7.3.0.3
Remediation/Fixes
There are eFixes prepared on top of the latest released FixPack for each stream:
| Fix | VRMF | APAR | How to acquire fix |
| efix_TADDM73_jython21_FP320160323.zip | 7.3.0.3 | None | Download eFix |
| efix_TADDM722_jython21_FP520160209.zip | 7.2.2.5 | None | Download eFix |
Please get familiar with eFix readme in etc/<efix_name>_readme.txt
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Change History
4 May 2017 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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Document Information
Modified date:
17 June 2018
UID
swg22002854