K9762 : OpenSSL vulnerability - CVE-2008-5077

Security Advisory Description

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Note: Versions that are not listed in this article have not been evaluated for vulnerability to this security advisory. For information about the F5 security policy regarding evaluating older and unsupported versions of F5 products, refer to K4602: Overview of the F5 security vulnerability response policy.

Note: FirePass systems that have been modified to use DSA keys can be affected by this advisory (default FirePass keys are RSA).

F5 products and versions that have been evaluated for this Security Advisory

BIG-IP GTM| None| 9.x
10.x
11.x
BIG-IP ASM| None| 9.x
10.x
11.x
BIG-IP Link Controller| None| 9.x
10.x
11.x
BIG-IP WebAccelerator| None| 9.x
10.x
11.x
BIG-IP PSM| None| 9.x
10.x
11.x
BIG-IP WAN Optimization| None| 10.x
11.x
BIG-IP APM| None| 10.x
11.x
BIG-IP Edge Gateway| None| 10.x
11.x
BIG-IP Analytics| None| 11.x
BIG-IP AFM| None| 11.x
BIG-IP PEM
| None| 11.x
FirePass| 5.5.0 - 5.5.2
6.0.0 - 6.0.3
6.1.0
7.0.0 | —
Enterprise Manager| None| 1.x
2.x
3.x

ARX| None| 2.x
3.x
4.x
5.x
6.x

OpenSSL 0.9.8i and earlier versions do not properly check the return value from the EVP_VerifyFinalfunction.

Information about this advisory is available at the following locations:

<https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2008-5077&gt;

<http://openssl.org/news/secadv_20090107.txt&gt;

Note: These links take you to a resource outside of AskF5, and it is possible that the information may be removed without our knowledge.

F5 Product Development is tracking this issue as ID 294064 (formerly CR114792) to upgrade the version of OpenSSL used for the FirePass controller.

This is a similar vulnerability to CVE-2009-0025 and CVE-2009-0265. For information about CVE-2009-0025, refer to K9754: BIND 9 vulnerability CVE-2009-0025. For information about CVE-2009-0265, refer to K11503: BIND 9 vulnerability CVE-2009-0265.