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Security Bulletin: Public disclosed vulnerability from Spring Framework affects IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer

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Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/869242
869242

Security Bulletin


Summary

Public disclosed vulnerability from Spring Framework affects IBM Spectrum LSF Explorer

Vulnerability Details

CVE-ID:CVE-2018-15756
Description: Pivotal Spring Framework is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper handling of range request by the ResourceHttpRequestHandler. By adding a range header with a high number of ranges, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.


CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score:  https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/151641  for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Spectrum LSF Explorer 10.2, 10.2.0.6, 10.2.0.7

Remediation/Fixes

<Product

VRMF

APAR

Remediation/First Fix

Spectrum LSF Explorer

10.2

None

See workaround

Spectrum LSF Explorer

10.2.0.6

None

See workaround

Spectrum LSF Explorer

10.2.0.7

None

See workaround

Workarounds and Mitigations

Spectrum LSF Explorer 10.2 & 10.2.0.6 & 10.2.0.7

  1. Download Spring Framework 4.3.22 from following link, https://repo.spring.io/release/org/springframework/spring/4.3.22.RELEASE/spring-framework-4.3.22.RELEASE-dist.zip
  2. Replace the downloaded files (spring-context-support-4.3.22.RELEASE.jar, spring-beans-4.3.22.RELEASE.jar, spring-context-4.3.22.RELEASE.jar, spring-expression-4.3.22.RELEASE.jar, spring-web-4.3.22.RELEASE.jar, spring-core-4.3.22.RELEASE.jar, spring-aop-4.3.22.RELEASE.jar, spring-context-support-4.3.22.RELEASE.jar, spring-jdbc-4.3.22.RELEASE.jar, spring-beans-4.3.22.RELEASE.jar, spring-context-4.3.22.RELEASE.jar, spring-expression-4.3.22.RELEASE.jar, spring-web-4.3.22.RELEASE.jar, spring-core-4.3.22.RELEASE.jar, spring-webmvc-4.3.22.RELEASE.jar, spring-aop-4.3.22.RELEASE.jar, spring-orm-4.3.22.RELEASE.jar, spring-tx-4.3.22.RELEASE.jar) into Application Center installed environment.
  3. How to find replace files location
    • Navigate to Spectrum LSF Explorer Server installed directory
    • run command ‘find . -name "*spring*4.3.2*.jar"’

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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

Change History

Jan 28, 2019 - Original version

*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 February 2019

UID

ibm10869242

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