Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL affect IBM MQ Light (CVE-2015-3193, CVE-2015-3194)

Summary

OpenSSL vulnerabilities were disclosed on December 3, 2015 by the OpenSSL Project. OpenSSL is used by IBM MQ Light. IBM MQ Light has addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-3193**
DESCRIPTION:** OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error in the x86_64 Montgomery squaring procedure. An attacker with online access to an unpatched system could exploit this vulnerability to obtain private key information.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/108502 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)

CVEID: CVE-2015-3194**
DESCRIPTION:** OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference when verifying certificates via a malformed routine. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using signature verification routines with an absent PSS parameter to cause any certificate verification operation to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/108503 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)

Affected Products and Versions

The vulnerabilities affect users of the mqlight IBM MQ Light Client Module for Node.js® on all platforms at the following versions:
1.0.2014090800
1.0.2014090801
1.0.2014091000-red
1.0.2014091001

It also affects users of the mqlight-dev IBM MQ Light Client Module for Node.js between versions 1.0.2014090300 and 1.0.2014111002 inclusive.

Remediation/Fixes

Users of the IBM MQ Light Client Module for Node.js at an affected version should update to the latest version of the IBM MQ Light Client Module for Node.js as found on https://www.npmjs.com.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None