Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in OpenSSL affects IBM DataPower Gateways (CVE-2017-3735)

Summary

A potential vulnerability has been reported by the OpenSSL project. IBM DataPower Gateways has addressed the applicable CVE.

Vulnerability Details

Relevant CVE Information:

CVEID: CVE-2017-3735**
DESCRIPTION:** OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error while parsing an IPAdressFamily extension in an X.509 certificate. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger an out-of-bounds read, resulting in an incorrect text display of the certificate.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/131047 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)

Affected Products and Versions

DataPower versions 7.1.0.0-7.1.0.20, 7.2.0.0-7.2.0.17, 7.5.0.0-7.5.0.11, 7.5.1.0-7.5.1.10, 7.5.2.0-7.5.2.10 and 7.6.0.0-7.6.0.3

Remediation/Fixes

Fix is available in versions 7.1.0.21, 7.2.0.18, 7.5.0.12, 7.5.1.11, 7.5.2.11, 7.6.0.4. Refer to _APAR _IT23193 for URLs to download the fix.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
On-line Calculator v2

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
On-line Calculator v3

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

15 December 2017: Original version published

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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