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Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK and IBM Java Runtime affect IBM Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition, IBM Platform Cluster Manager Advanced Edition, Platform HPC, and Spectrum Cluster Foundation

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https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/728545
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Security Bulletin


Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, Version 6&7 and IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Version 6&7 used by IBM Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition, IBM Platform Cluster Manager Advanced Edition, Platform HPC, and Spectrum Cluster Foundation. IBM Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition, IBM Platform Cluster Manager Advanced Edition, Platform HPC, and Spectrum Cluster Foundation have addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

If you run your own Java code using the IBM Java Runtime delivered with this product, you should evaluate your code to determine whether additional Java vulnerabilities are applicable to your code. For a complete list of vulnerabilities, refer to the "IBM Java SDK Security Bulletin", located in the References section for more information.

CVEID:  CVE-2018-2964
DESCRIPTION:  An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE Deployment component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to take control of the system.
CVSS Base Score: 8.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/146827 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:  CVE-2018-2973
DESCRIPTION:  An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE JSSE component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, high integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/146835 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID:  CVE-2018-2940
DESCRIPTION:  An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE Libraries component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information resulting in a low confidentiality impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/146803 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:  CVE-2018-2952
DESCRIPTION:  An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE Concurrency component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a low availability impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base Score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/146815 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:  CVE-2018-1656
DESCRIPTION:  The IBM Java Runtime Environment's Diagnostic Tooling Framework for Java (DTFJ) does not protect against path traversal attacks when extracting compressed dump files.
CVSS Base Score: 7.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/144882 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2018-12539
DESCRIPTION: Eclipse OpenJ9 could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by the failure to restrict the use of Java Attach API to connect to an Eclipse OpenJ9 or IBM JVM on the same machine and use Attach API operations to only the process owner. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute untrusted native code and gain elevated privileges on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/148389 for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:  CVE-2018-1517
DESCRIPTION:  A flaw in the java.math component in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition may allow an attacker to inflict a denial-of-service attack with specially crafted String data.
CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/141681 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2016-0705
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a double-free error when parsing DSA private keys.
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to corrupt memory and cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111140 for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2017-3732
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a carry propagating bug in
 the x86_64 Montgomery squaring procedure. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain information about the
private key.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/121313 for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2017-3736
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a carry propagation flaw i
n the x86_64 Montgomery squaring function bn_sqrx8x_internal(). An attacker with online access to an unpatched system co
uld exploit this vulnerability to obtain information about the private key.
CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/134397 for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition Version: 4.1.0 - 4.1.1.1

Platform Cluster Manager Version: 4.2.0 - 4.2.1

Platform HPC Version: 4.1.1 - 4.2.1

Spectrum Cluster Foundation: 4.2.2 

Remediation/Fixes

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Remediation/First Fix

Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition

4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.1.1, 4.2.0, 4.2.0.1, 4.2.0.2, 4.2.1

None

See fix below

Platform Cluster Manager Advanced Edition

4.2.0, 4.2.0.1, 4.2.0.2, 4.2.1

None

See fix below

Platform HPC 

4.1.1, 4.1.1.1, 4.2.0, 4.2.1

None

See fix below

Spectrum Cluster Foundation

4.2.2

None

See fix below

 

Platform Cluster Manager 4.1.x & Platform HPC 4.1.x

  1. Download IBM JRE 6.0 x86_64 from the following location: http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral. (For POWER platform, download ppc64 version JRE tar package. The followings steps are using x86_64 as an example.)
  2. Copy the tar package into the management node.  If high availability is enabled, copy the JRE tar package to standby management node, as well.
  3. If high availability is enabled, shutdown standby management node to avoid triggering high availability.
  4. On the management node, stop GUI and PERF services

HA disabled:
# pmcadmin stop
# perfadmin stop all


HA enabled:
# egosh user logon -u Admin -x Admin
# egosh service stop all

 

  1. On management node, extract new JRE files and replace some old folders with new ones.

# tar -zxvf ibm-java-jre-6.0-16.60-linux-x86_64.tgz
# mv /opt/pcm/web-portal/jre/linux-x86_64/bin /opt/pcm/web-portal/jre/linux-x86_64/bin-old
# mv /opt/pcm/web-portal/jre/linux-x86_64/lib /opt/pcm/web-portal/jre/linux-x86_64/lib-old
# mv /opt/pcm/web-portal/jre/linux-x86_64/plugin /opt/pcm/web-portal/jre/linux-x86_64/plugin-old
# cp -r ibm-java-x86_64-60/jre/bin /opt/pcm/web-portal/jre/linux-x86_64/
# cp -r ibm-java-x86_64-60/jre/lib /opt/pcm/web-portal/jre/linux-x86_64/
# cp -r ibm-java-x86_64-60/jre/plugin /opt/pcm/web-portal/jre/linux-x86_64/

 

  1.  On management node, start GUI and PERF services

HA disabled:
# pmcadmin start
# perfadmin start all


HA enabled:
# egosh user logon -u Admin -x Admin
# egosh service start all

 

Platform Cluster Manager 4.2.x & Platform HPC 4.2.x & Spectrum Cluster Foundation 4.2.2

  1. Download IBM JRE 7.0 x86_64 from the following location: http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral. (For POWER platform, download ppc64 version JRE tar package. The followings steps are using x86_64 as an example.)
  2. Copy the tar package into the management node.  If high availability is enabled, copy the JRE tar package to standby management node, as well.
  3. If high availability is enabled, shutdown standby management node to avoid triggering high availability.
  4. On the management node, stop GUI and PERF services

# pcmadmin service stop --group ALL

 

  1. On management node, extract new JRE files and replace some old folders with new ones.

# tar -zxvf ibm-java-jre-7.0-10.20-linux-x86_64.tgz
# mv /opt/pcm/jre/bin /opt/pcm/jre/bin-old
# mv /opt/pcm/jre/lib /opt/pcm/jre/lib-old
# mv /opt/pcm/jre/plugin /opt/pcm/jre/plugin-old
# cp -r ibm-java-x86_64-70/jre/bin /opt/pcm/jre/
# cp -r ibm-java-x86_64-70/jre/lib /opt/pcm/jre/
# cp -r ibm-java-x86_64-70/jre/plugin /opt/pcm/jre/

# mv /opt/pcm/web-portal/jre/linux-x86_64/bin /opt/pcm/web-portal/jre/linux-x86_64/bin-old
# mv /opt/pcm/web-portal/jre/linux-x86_64/lib /opt/pcm/web-portal/jre/linux-x86_64/lib-old
# mv /opt/pcm/web-portal/jre/linux-x86_64/plugin /opt/pcm/web-portal/jre/linux-x86_64/plugin-old
# cp -r ibm-java-x86_64-70/jre/bin /opt/pcm/web-portal/jre/linux-x86_64/
# cp -r ibm-java-x86_64-70/jre/lib /opt/pcm/web-portal/jre/linux-x86_64/
# cp -r ibm-java-x86_64-70/jre/plugin /opt/pcm/web-portal/jre/linux-x86_64/

 

  1.  On management node, start GUI and PERF services

# pcmadmin service start --group ALL

 

  1. If high availability is enabled, start up standby management node, and replace bin, lib, plugin folders under /opt/pcm/web-portal/jre/linux-x86_64, on standby management node.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.

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References

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Acknowledgement

CVE-2018-1517 was reported to IBM by Michael Weissbacher

Change History

21 Aug 2018: Original version 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:
25 September 2018

UID

ibm10728545