Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM Tivoli Monitoring uses zlib compression library in both the General services library and the File Transfer component. This bulletin address several reported vulnerabilities in the zlib compression library.
Vulnerability Details
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-2016-9843
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
The TEMS(KMS) and TEMA(KAX) components for IBM Tivoli Monitoring 622 Fix Pack 9, 623 Fix Pack5 and 630 Fix Pack 7 are affected. For IBM Tivoli Monitoring 623 Fix pack 5 and 630 Fix pack 7, the following components are also affected: TEMA(KGL), TEPS(KCQ) and the User Interface Extensions (KUE)
Remediation/Fixes
The patches below update the TEMA(ax), TEMS(ms), TEPS(cq) and User Interface(ue) components which are shipped as part of ITM
The technote Upgrading Shared Components for IBM Tivoli Monitoring Agents provides information on updating Shared Libraries.
| Fix | VRMF | How to acquire fix |
| 6.3.0-TIV-ITM-FP0007-IV97602 | 6.3.0 | http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24043952 |
| 6.2.3-TIV-ITM-FP0005-IV97602 | 6.2.3 | |
| 6.2.2-TIV-ITM-FP0009-IV97602 | 6.2.2 |
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Change History
17 July 2017 Draft bulletin created
*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
swg22005169