Security Bulletin: IBM NeXtScale Fan Power Controller (FPC) is affected by vulnerability in OpenSSL (CVE-2018-0734)

Summary

IBM NeXtScale Fan Power Controller (FPC) has addressed the following vulnerability in OpenSSL.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-0734 DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a timing side channel attack in the DSA signature algorithm. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using variations in the signing algorithm to recover the private key.
CVSS Base Score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/152085&gt; 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:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Product

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Affected Version

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IBM NeXtScale Fan Power Controller (FPC)

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FHET

Remediation/Fixes

Firmware fix versions are available on Fix Central: <http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/&gt;

Product

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Fix Version

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IBM NeXtScale Fan Power Controller (FPC)
(ibm_fw_fpc_fhet34a-3.20_anyos_noarch)

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fhet34a-3.20

Workarounds and Mitigations

None