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Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities affect IBM® SDK, Java™ Technology Edition

Security Bulletin


Summary

This bulletin for IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition covers all applicable Java SE CVEs published by Oracle as part of their April 2024 Critical Patch Update, plus CVE-2023-38264. For more information please refer to Oracle's April 2024 CPU Advisory and the X-Force database entries referenced below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2024-21094
DESCRIPTION:   An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the VM component could allow a remote attacker to cause no confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and no availability impact.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/287959 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2024-21085
DESCRIPTION:   An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the VM component could allow a remote attacker to cause low availability impacts.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/288000 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:   CVE-2024-21011
DESCRIPTION:   An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the VM component could allow a remote attacker to cause low availability impact.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/288020 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID:   CVE-2023-38264
DESCRIPTION:   The IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition's Object Request Broker (ORB) is vulnerable to a denial of service attack in some circumstances due to improper enforcement of the JEP 290 MaxRef and MaxDepth deserialization filters.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/260578 for the current score.
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

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition7.1.0.0 - 7.1.5.21 (restricted access)
IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition8.0.0.0 - 8.0.8.21 

 

For detailed information on which CVEs affect which releases, please refer to the IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Security Vulnerabilities page.

NOTE: CVE-2024-21094 and CVE-2024-21011 affect IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition on Solaris, HP-UX and Mac OS only.

Remediation/Fixes

7.1.5.22 (restricted access)
8.0.8.25

IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition releases can be downloaded, subject to the terms of the developerWorks license, from the Java Developer Center.

IBM customers requiring an update for an SDK shipped with an IBM product should contact IBM support, and/or refer to the appropriate product security bulletin.

APAR numbers are as follows:

IJ50948 (CVE-2024-21085)
IJ50949 (CVE-2024-21012)
IX90196 (CVE-2023-38264)

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

09 May 2024: 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:
09 May 2024

UID

ibm17150727