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Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Semeru Runtime affect z/Transaction Processing Facility

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Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® Semeru Runtime Certified Edition 11 that is used by the z/TPF system. z/TPF has addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2022-34169
DESCRIPTION:   The Apache Xalan Java XSLT library could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer truncation issue when processing malicious XSLT stylesheets. By using specially crafted XSLT stylesheets, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/231488 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:   CVE-2022-21549
DESCRIPTION:   An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Libraries component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/231575 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
z/Transaction Processing Facility1.1

Remediation/Fixes

ProductVRMFAPARRemediation/First Fix
 z/TPF1.1PJ46883
  1. Apply the APAR, which is available for download from the TPF Family Products: Maintenance web page.
  2. Download and install the PJ46883_ibm-semeru-certified-jre-11.0.16.0 package from the z/TPF support for IBM Semeru Runtimes and IBM Java SDK download page.
 

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

IBM Semeru Runtime Security Bulletin

Change History

21 Sep 2022: 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.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
22 September 2022

UID

ibm16695887

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