Security Bulletin
Summary
Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities may affect IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition Version 6, 7, 8 and IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Version 6, 7, 8 in IBM FileNet Content Manager, and IBM Content Foundation.
Java SE issues disclosed in the Oracle April 2017 Critical Patch Update.
Vulnerability Details
Advisory CVEs:
CVE-2016-9840, CVE-2016-9841, CVE-2016-9842, CVE-2016-9843
This bulletin covers all applicable Java SE CVEs published by Oracle as part of their April 2017 Critical Patch Update. For more information please refer to Oracle's April 2017 CPU Advisory and the X-Force database entries referenced below.
CVEID: CVE-2016-9840
DESCRIPTION: zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic in inftrees.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120508 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2016-9841
DESCRIPTION: zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds pointer arithmetic in inftrees.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120509 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2016-9842
DESCRIPTION: zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an undefined left shift of negative number. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120510 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2016-9843
DESCRIPTION: zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a big-endian out-of-bounds pointer. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted document, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/120511 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
Affected Products and Versions
FileNet Content Manager 5.0.0, 5.2.1
Remediation/Fixes
To address this vulnerability install one of the fixes listed below to upgrade the IBM Java JRE.
The fixes supply the proper Java JRE for the various release levels of the affected products. Depending upon the product and release level, these fixes will upgrade the Java JRE (April 2017) to one of the following:
- IBM JRE, Java Technology Edition, Version 6 Service Refresh 16 Fix Pack 45
- IBM JRE, Java Technology Edition, Version 7 Service Refresh 10 Fix Pack 15
- IBM JRE, Java Technology Edition, Version 8 Service Refresh 4 Fix Pack 5
| Product | VRMF | APAR | Remediation/First Fix |
| FileNet Content Manager | 5.0.0 5.2.1 | PJ44768 | 5.0.0.10-P8PE-FP010 - 8/11/2017 5.2.1.7-P8CSS-FP007 - 6/26/2017 |
In the above table, the APAR links will provide more information about the fix.
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Change History
26 June, 2017: Initial release
11 August 2017: 5.0.0.10-P8PE-FP010 release
*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
swg22003154