IBM Security Bulletin: IBM MQ Appliance is affected by a Network Security Services (NSS) vulnerability (CVE-2017-5461) - United States  SECURITY BULLETIN

SUMMARY
 IBM MQ Appliance has addressed a vulnerability in Network Security Services (NSS). 

VULNERABILITY DETAILS
CVEID:CVE-2017-5461 [http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5461]
DESCRIPTION:Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an out-of-bounds write during Base64 decoding operation in the Network Security Services (NSS) library. By persuading a user to visit a specially-crafted website, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: Seehttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/125002 [https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/125002]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:H/A:H) 

AFFECTED PRODUCTS AND VERSIONS
IBM MQ Appliance 8.0 

Maintenance levels between 8.0.0.0 and 8.0.0.6
IBM MQ Appliance 9.0.x Continuous Delivery (CD) Release 

Continuous delivery updates between 9.0.1 and 9.0.3

REMEDIATION/FIXES
IBM MQ Appliance 8.0 

Apply fixpack 8.0.0.7 [https://www-945.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=ibm~WebSphere&product=ibm/WebSphere/IBM+MQ+Appliance+M2000&release=8.0.0.6&platform=All&function=all]
IBM MQ Appliance 9.0.x Continuous Delivery (CD) Release 

Apply the ifix for APAR IT21888 [https://www-945.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=ibm~WebSphere&product=ibm/WebSphere/IBM+MQ+Appliance+M2000&release=9.0.3&platform=All&function=all]

WORKAROUNDS AND MITIGATIONS
None

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REFERENCES
Complete CVSS v3 Guide [http://www.first.org/cvss/user-guide] 
On-line Calculator v3 [http://www.first.org/cvss/calculator/3.0] 

RELATED INFORMATION
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal [http://www.ibm.com/security/secure-engineering/bulletins.html] 
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog [http://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt] 

CHANGE HISTORY
 24 Aug 2017 Updated to include IBM MQ Appliance 9.0.x CD release
14 Jul 2017 Original version 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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Answer: CVEID:CVE-2017-5461 [http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5461]
DESCRIPTION:Mozilla Firefox could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an out-of-bounds write during Base64 decoding operation in the Network Security Services (NSS) library. By persuading a user to visit a specially-crafted website, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using unknown attack vectors to execute arbitrary code on the vulnerable system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 8.8
CVSS Temporal Score: Seehttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/125002 [https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/125002]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:H/A:H)