Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL affect IBM Enterprise Content Management System Monitor (CVE-2016-6304, CVE-2016-2177)

Summary

OpenSSL vulnerabilities were disclosed on September 22 and 26, 2016 by the OpenSSL Project. OpenSSL is used by IBM Enterprise Content Management System Monitor. IBM Enterprise Content Management System Monitor has addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-6304**
DESCRIPTION:** OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service. By repeatedly requesting renegotiation, a remote authenticated attacker could send an overly large OCSP Status Request extension to consume all available memory resources.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/117110 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2016-2177**
DESCRIPTION:** OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the incorrect use of pointer arithmetic for heap-buffer boundary checks. By leveraging unexpected malloc behavior, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger an integer overflow and cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/113890 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Enterprise Content Management System Monitor v 5.1.0
IBM Enterprise Content Management System Monitor v 5.2.0

Remediation/Fixes

Product

| VRM|Remediation
—|—|—
IBM Enterprise Content Management System Monitor| 5.1.0| _Use _ECM SM 510-FP3-IF9 avaible at https://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/
IBM Enterprise Content Management System Monitor| 5.2.0| _Use _ECM SM 5.2.0.4 avaible at https://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/

Workarounds and Mitigations

NA