Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL affect IBM Security Network Active Bypass (CVE-2016-2108, CVE-2016-2107, CVE-2016-2105, CVE-2016-2106, CVE-2016-2109, CVE-2016-2176)

Summary

OpenSSL vulnerabilities were disclosed on May 3, 2016 by the OpenSSL Project. OpenSSL is used by IBM Security Network Active Bypass. IBM Security Network Active Bypass has addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-2108**
DESCRIPTION:** OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a buffer underflow when deserializing untrusted ASN.1 structures and later reserializes them. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to corrupt memory and trigger an out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/112853 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2016-2107**
DESCRIPTION:** OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error when the connection uses an AES CBC cipher and the server support AES-NI. A remote user with the ability to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack could exploit this vulnerability via the POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) attack to decrypt traffic.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/112854 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2016-2105**
DESCRIPTION:** OpenSSL is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the EVP_EncodeUpdate() function. By sending an overly long argument, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/112855 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2016-2106**
DESCRIPTION:** OpenSSL is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the EVP_EncryptUpdate() function. By sending an overly long argument, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/112856 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2016-2109**
DESCRIPTION:** OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory allocation error. By reading specially crafted ASN.1 data from a BIO using functions such as d2i_CMS_bio(), an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available resources and exhaust memory.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/112857 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2016-2176**
DESCRIPTION:** OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, By sending an overly long ASN.1 string to the X509_NAME_oneline() function, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to return arbitrary stack data in the buffer.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/112858 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Products: ABYP-0T-0S-4L-P, ABYP-0T-0S-4L-P-M, ABYP-0T-2S-2L-P, ABYP-0T-2S-2L-P-M, ABYP-0T-4S-0L-P, ABYP-0T-4S-0L-P-M, ABYP-10G-2SR-2LR-1-P, ABYP-10G-2SR-2LR-1-P-M, ABYP-10G-4LR-1-P, ABYP-10G-4LR-1-P-M, ABYP-10G-4SR-1-P, ABYP-10G-4SR-1-P-M, ABYP-2T-0S-2L-P, ABYP-2T-0S-2L-P-M, ABYP-2T-1S-1L-P, ABYP-2T-1S-1L-P-M, ABYP-2T-2S-0L-P, ABYP-2T-2S-0L-P-M, ABYP-4T-0S-0L-P, ABYP-4T-0S-0L-P-M, ABYP-4TL-P, ABYP-4TL-P-M, ABYP-4TS-P, ABYP-4TS-P-M

Firmware versions:
1G NAB - 2.15-36, 2.16-37, 2.18-43, 3.4-23, 3.9-34, 3.13-41, 3.18-49, 3.25-57, 3.29-9, 3.30-12, 3.30.0-13, 3.30.2-9, 3.30.4-12
10G NAB - 1.0.1876, 1.0.2919, 0343c3c, 2.11-28, 2.13-34, 2.15-36, 2.18-42, 3.4-23, 3.9-34, 3.13-41, 3.18-49, 3.25-57, 3.29-9, 3.30-12, 3.30.0-13, 3.30.2-9, 3.30.4-12

Remediation/Fixes

Product

| VRMF| Remediation/First Fix
—|—|—
IBM Security Proventia Network Active Bypass| 3.X | Proventia 1G NAB Update 20 (fw 3.30.5-21) IBM Security Proventia Network Active Bypass| 3.X| Proventia 10G NAB Update 17 (fw 3.30.5-21)

For IBM Security Proventia Network Active Bypass products at Firmware versions:

1G NAB - 2.15-36, 2.16-37, 2.18-43, 3.4-23, 3.9-34, 3.13-41, 3.18-49, 3.25-57, 3.29-9, 3.30-12, 3.30.0-13, 3.30.2-9, 3.30.4-12
10G NAB - 1.0.1876, 1.0.2919, 0343c3c, 2.11-28, 2.13-34, 2.15-36, 2.18-42, 3.4-23, 3.9-34, 3.13-41, 3.18-49, 3.25-57, 3.29-9, 3.30-12, 3.30.0-13, 3.30.2-9, 3.30.4-12

IBM recommends upgrading to 3.30.5-21, the supported firmware release of the product.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None