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

Created by Jian Jin on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/875474
875474

Security Bulletin


Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM®Runtime Environment Java™Version 6 and 7 used by IBM Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition, IBM Platform Cluster Manager Advanced Edition, Platform HPC, and Spectrum Cluster Foundation. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in January 2019.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:  CVE-2018-11212 
DESCRIPTION: libjpeg is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by divide-by-zero error in the alloc_sarray function in jmemmgr.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See  https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/143429  for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:  CVE-2019-2426 
DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE Networking component could allow an unauthenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information resulting in a low confidentiality impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base Score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See  https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/155744  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:N/A:N)

CVEID:  CVE-2019-2449 
DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability related to the Java SE Deployment 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: 3.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See  https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/155766  for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:  CVE-2019-2422 
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: 3.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See  https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/155741  for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2018-12547 
DESCRIPTION: Eclipse OpenJ9 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the jio_snprintf() and jio_vsnprintf() functions. By sending an overly long argument, 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/157512 for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2018-12549 
DESCRIPTION: Eclipse OpenJ9 could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by the failure to omit a null check on the receiver object of an Unsafe call when accelerating it. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/157513 for more information
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2018-1890 
DESCRIPTION: IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Version 8 on the AIX platform uses absolute RPATHs which may facilitate code injection and privilege elevation by local users.
CVSS Base Score: 5.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/152081  for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Platform Cluster Manager Version 4.2.0, 4.2.0.1, 4.2.0.2 and 4.2.1

Platform HPC Version 4.2.0 and 4.2.1

Spectrum Cluster Foundation 4.2.2 

Remediation/Fixes

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VRMF

APAR

Remediation/First Fix

Platform Cluster Manager Standard Edition

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 

4.2.0, 4.2.1

None

See fix below

Spectrum Cluster Foundation

4.2.2

None

See fix below

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

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

# chmod +x ibm-java-x86_64-jre-7.0-10.40.bin

# ./ibm-java-x86_64-jre-7.0-10.40.bin
# 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/

6.  On management node, start GUI and PERF services

# pcmadmin service start --group ALL

7.  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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Change History

Mar 9, 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 March 2019

UID

ibm10875474