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Security Bulletin: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in IBM SDK Affects IBM Transformation Extender

Security Bulletin


Summary

A vulnerability in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Quarterly CPU - Jan 2021 affects IBM Transformation Extender.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2020-27221
DESCRIPTION:   Eclipse OpenJ9 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow when the virtual machine or JNI natives are converting from UTF-8 characters to platform encoding. By sending an overly long string, 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/195353 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Transformation Extender9.0
WebSphere Transformation Extender8.4.1
IBM Transformation Extender10.0
IBM Transformation Extender10.1

Remediation/Fixes

Affected Product(s)Version(s)APARDownload URL
IBM Transformation Extender9.0PH35846Link
WebSphere Transformation Extender8.4.1PH35846Link
IBM Transformation Extender10.0PH35846Link
IBM Transformation Extender10.1PH35846Link

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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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

Acknowledgement

Change History

07 Apr 2021: 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:
26 April 2021

UID

ibm16443283

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