Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL affect IBM Cognos Controller (CVE-2015-0209, CVE-2015-0286, CVE-2015-0289)

Summary

OpenSSL vulnerabilities were disclosed on March 19, 2015 by the OpenSSL Project. OpenSSL is used by IBM Cognos Controller. IBM Cognos Controller has addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-0209 DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a use-after-free error in the d2i_ECPrivateKey or EVP_PKCS82PKEY function. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a malformed Elliptic Curve (EC) private-key file to corrupt memory and execute arbitrary code on the system and cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 6.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/101674 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2015-0286 DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the ASN1_TYPE_cmp function when attempting to compare ASN.1 boolean types. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash any certificate verification operation and cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/101666 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVEID: CVE-2015-0289 DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to properly handle missing outer ContentInfo by the PKCS#7 parsing code. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blob to trigger a NULL pointer dereference.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/101669 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Cognos Controller 10.2.1

IBM Cognos Controller 10.2

IBM Cognos Controller 10.1.1

IBM Cognos Controller 10.1

IBM Cognos Controller 8.5

Remediation/Fixes

IBM Cognos Controller 10.2.1 FP1 IF1

IBM Cognos Controller 10.2 FP1 IF2

IBM Cognos Controller 10.1.1 FP3 IF4

IBM Cognos Controller 10.1 IF4

IBM Cognos Controller 8.5.1 FP1 IF1

Users of IBM Cognos Controller 8.5 are advised to contact IBM Customer Support.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None