Product Affected

These issues affect all versions of the Juniper Identity Management System.
Medium
6.4 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H)

Problem

Multiple vulnerabilities in zlib have been resolved in the Juniper Networks Juniper Identity Management System (JIMS).

These issues affect all JIMS versions prior to 1.2.1.

Juniper SIRT is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this vulnerability.

 

Important security issues resolved include:

CVE CVSS Summary
CVE-2016-9843 9.8 ( CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H ) The crc32_big function in crc32.c in zlib 1.2.8 might allow context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact via vectors involving big-endian CRC calculation.
CVE-2016-9841 9.8 ( CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H ) inffast.c in zlib 1.2.8 might allow context-dependent attackers to have unspecified impact by leveraging improper pointer arithmetic.

 

Solution

The following software releases have been updated to resolve this specific issue: JIMS 1.2.1, 1.3.0, and all subsequent releases.

This issue is being tracked as  1510249 .
 

Software releases or updates are available for download at https://www.juniper.net/support/downloads/ .
 

Workaround

There are no viable workarounds for this issue.
 

Severity Assessment

Information for how Juniper Networks uses CVSS can be found at KB 16446 [juniper.net] "Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and Juniper's Security Advisories."

Modification History

2020-10-14: Initial Publication

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