Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in OpenSSL affects GCM16 & GCM32 KVM Switch Firmware (CVE-2019-1551)

Summary

IBM GCM16 & GCM32 KVM Switch Firmware have addressed the following vulnerability in OpenSSL.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-1551
**DESCRIPTION:**OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an overflow in the x64_64 Montgomery squaring procedure used in exponentiation with 512-bit moduli. By performing a man-in-the-middle attack, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 6.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/172752 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

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

GCM16/32 KVM Switch Firmware

(ibm_fw_gcm16_gcm32_v2.8.3.25691_anyos_noarch)

| 2.8.3.25691

Workarounds and Mitigations

None