Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK, Java™ Technology Edition affected IBM Workflow for Bluemix January 2016 (CVE-2015-7575, CVE-2016-0466, CVE-2016-0475)

Security Bulletin

Summary

There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, Version 8. that is used by IBM Workflow for Bluemix. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM® SDK, Java™ Technology Edition updates in January 2016 and include the vulnerability commonly referred to as "SLOTH".

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-0475
DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE Java SE Embedded and Jrockit related to the Libraries component has partial confidentiality impact, partial integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 5.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109946 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2016-0466
DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE Java SE Embedded and Jrockit related to the JAXP component could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service resulting in a partial availability impact using unknown attack vectors.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109948 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2015-7575
DESCRIPTION: The TLS protocol could allow weaker than expected security caused by a collision attack when using the MD5 hash function for signing a ServerKeyExchange message during a TLS handshake. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using man-in-the-middle techniques to impersonate a TLS server and obtain credentials.
CVSS Base Score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/109415 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

These vulnerabilities affected IBM Workflow for Bluemix.

Remediation/Fixes

The production system has been upgraded. A user action is not required.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

2016-02-15: Original document published

*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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Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK, Java™ Technology Edition affected IBM Workflow for Bluemix January 2016 (CVE-2015-7575, CVE-2016-0466, CVE-2016-0475)