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Security Bulletin: IBM Security Access Manager Appliance is affected by glibc vulnerabilities (CVE-2015-8779, CVE-2015-8776)

Created by Ann-Louise Bolger on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/568529
568529

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Security Access Manager Appliance has addressed the following vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-8779
DESCRIPTION: GNU C Library (glibc) is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the catopen function. By sending an overly long string, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111087 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2015-8776
DESCRIPTION: GNU C Library (glibc) is vulnerable to a denial of service. By passing out-of-range time values to the strftime function, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a segmentation fault or obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110675 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:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected IBM Security Access Manager Appliance

Affected Versions
IBM Security Access Manager for Web7.0 - 7.0.0.30
IBM Security Access Manager for Web8.0 - 8.0.1.6
IBM Security Access Manager for Mobile8.0 - 8.0.1.6
IBM Security Access Manager9.0 - 9.0.4.0 IF 1

Remediation/Fixes

Product

VRMFAPARRemediation
IBM Security Access Manager for Web 7.0 - 7.0.0.30 IJ03458Apply Interim Fix 31:
7.0.0-ISS-WGA-IF0031
IBM Security Access Manager for Web (appliance)8.0 - 8.0.1.6IJ03456Upgrade to 8.0.1.7:
8.0.1-ISS-WGA-FP0007
IBM Security Access Manager for Mobile (appliance)8.0 - 8.0.1.6IJ03457Upgrade to 8.0.1.7:
8.0.1-ISS-ISAM-FP0007
IBM Security Access Manager (appliance)9.0 - 9.0.4.0 IF 1IJ034561. For versions prior to 9.0.4.0, upgrade to 9.0.4.0:
9.0.4-ISS-ISAM-FP0000

2. Apply 9.0.4.0 IF2:
9.0.4.0-ISS-ISAM-IF0002

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

4 April 2018: 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.

Disclaimer

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg22014870

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