Security Bulletin
Summary
Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Oracle Jan 2021 CPU for Java 8 which is shipped with IBM® Intelligent Operations Center. Information about these vulnerabilities affecting IBM® Intelligent Operations Center have been published and addressed the applicable CVEs.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2020-14803
DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE could allow an unauthenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information resulting in a low confidentiality impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/190121 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2020-27221
DESCRIPTION: Eclipse OpenJ9 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow when the virtual machine or JNI natives are converting from UTF-8 characters to platform encoding. 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: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/195353 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| Intelligent Operations Center (IOC) | 5.1.0, 5.1.0.2, 5.1.0.3, 5.1.0.4, 5.1.0.6, 5.2, 5.2.1 |
Remediation/Fixes
The recommended solution is to apply an interim fix that contains the fix for this issue as soon as practical.
Download the IBM Intelligent Operations Center Version 5.2.2 is an upgrade to IBM Intelligent Operations Center Version 5.1 through IBM Intelligent Operations Center Version 5.2 from the following link:
IBM Intelligent Operations Center Version 5.2.2
Installation instructions for the fix are included in the readme document that is in the fix package.
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Change History
06 Sep 2021: Initial Publication
*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 Location
Worldwide
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Document Information
Modified date:
06 September 2021
Initial Publish date:
06 September 2021
UID
ibm16486715