Security Bulletin: Several System x and Flex Systems products are affected by vulnerabilities in OpenSSL (CVE-2013-6449, CVE-2013-4353 and CVE-2013-6450)

Summary

Security vulnerabilities discovered in OpenSSL have been fixed in recent releases of several IBM System x and Flex Systems products. You may have already applied the updates containing these fixes.

Vulnerability Details

Abstract

Security vulnerabilities discovered in OpenSSL have been fixed in recent releases of several IBM System x and Flex Systems products. You may have already applied the updates containing these fixes.

Content

Vulnerability Details:

CVE-ID: CVE-2013-6449

Description: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the ssl_get_algorithm2 function. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially-crafted traffic from a TLS 1.2 client to cause the daemon to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/90068&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4353 __

Description: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference when handling malicious S/MIME messages. By sending a specially-crafted TLS handshake, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a connecting client to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/90201&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVE-ID: CVE-2013-6450

Description: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to properly maintain data structures for digest and encryption contexts by the DTLS retransmission implementation. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the daemon to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/90069&gt;
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Affected products and versions

• BladeCenter Advanced Management Module, Option 25R5778
• BladeCenter T Advanced Management Module, Option 32R0835
• IBM BladeCenter™-E: Type 1881, 7967, 8677
• IBM BladeCenter™-H: Types 1886, 7989, 8852
• IBM BladeCenter™-HT: Types 8740, 8750
• IBM BladeCenter™-S: Types 1948, 7779, 8886
• IBM BladeCenter™-T: Types 8720, 8730
• Flex System Chassis Management Module, Option part number 68Y7029
• Flex System Enterprise Chassis, Types 7893, 8721, 8724
• Flex System x220 Compute Node, Types 7906
• Flex System x222 Compute Node, Type 7916
• Flex System x240 Compute Node, Types 8737, 8738
• Flex System x440 Compute Node, Type 7917
• iDataPlex dx360 M4, Types 7912, 7918
• NeXtScale nx360 M4 Type 5455
• System x3100 M4, Type 2582
• System x3250 M4, Types 2583, 5287
• System x3250 M5, Type 5458
• System x3300 M4, Type 7382
• System x3500 M4, Type 7383
• System x3530 M4, Type 7160
• System x3550 M4, Type 7914
• System x3630 M4, Type 7158
• System x3650 M4, Type 7915
• System x3650 M4 BD, Type 5466
• System x3650 M4 HD, Type 5460
• System x3750 M4, Types 8722, 8733
• System x3850 X6, Type 3837
• System x3950 X6, Type 3837
• IBM ToolsCenter Suite versions 9.41, 9.50, and 9.51
• IBM Advanced Settings Utility (ASU) versions 9.41, 9.50, and 9.51
• IBM Dynamic System Analysis (DSA) versions 9.41, 9.50, and 9.51
• IBM UpdateXpress System Packs Installer (UXSPI) versions 9.41, 9.50, and 9.51
• IBM Upward Integration Modules (UIM) for VMware vSphere, version 3.0.1 and earlier;
• IBM Upward Integration Modules (UIM) for Microsoft System Center, version 5.0.1 and earlier, including the following components:

• * UIM Deployment Pack 5.0.1 and earlier
  

  • UIM System Updates 5.0.1 and earlier
  • UIM Inventory Tool 5.0.1 and earlier
  • UIM Configuration Pack 5.0.1 and earlier
  • UIM Integrated Installer 5.0.1 and earlier

BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM) Affected Firmware Versions:

• v3.66B (BPET66B)
• v3.66B (BBET66B)
• v3.66B (BPEO66B)
• v3.66C (BPET66C)
• v3.66C (BBET66C)
• v3.66C (BPEO66C)

Chassis Management Module (CMM) Affected Firmware Versions (CVE-2013-4353 and CVE-2013-6449):

• v1.50.0 (2PET12D)
• v1.50.0 (2PEO12D)
• v1.50.1 (2PET12F)
• v1.50.1 (2PEO12F)
• v1.50.1 (2PET12G)
• v1.50.1 (2PEO12G)
• v1.50.1 (2PET12H)

Flex System Integrated Management Module 2 (IMM2) Affected Firmware Versions:

• v3.78 (1AOO52Y)
• v3.56 (1AOO50K)
• v3.55 (1AOO50E)
• v3.50 (1AOO50B)
• v2.60 (1AOO42Y)

System x IMM2 Affected Firmware Versions:

• v3.81 (1AOO52Z)
• v3.80 (1AOO52U)
• v3.76 (1AOO52S)
• v3.74 (1AOO52R)
• v3.71 (1AOO52W)
• v3.70 (1AOO52Q)
• v3.67 (1AOO50G)
• v3.65 (1AOO50D)
• v3.40 (1AOO48M)
• v3.37 (1AOO48P)
• v3.36 (1AOO48Q)
• v3.35 (1AOO48N)
• v3.30 (1AOO48L)
• v3.10 (1AOO48H)
• v2.52 (1AOO42E)
• v2.50 (1AOO40Z)

Remediation:

IBM recommends downloading and applying the following updates from IBM Fix Central. Please visit the IBM ToolsCenter product home page (http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=tool-center) and the IBM Upward Integration Modules (UIM) product home page (http://www.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=SYST-MANAGE) for the downloads and details regarding those products.

IBM ToolsCenter Suite
IBM Advanced Settings Utility (ASU)
IBM Dynamic System Analysis (DSA)
IBM UpdateXress System Packs Installer (USXPI)

| Update to version 9.52
IBM Upward Integration Modules (UIM) for VMware vSphere | Update to version 3.0.2.

IBM Upward Integration Modules (UIM) for Microsoft System Center, including the following components:

• UIM Deployment Pack 5.0.2
• UIM System Updates 5.0.2
• UIM Inventory Tool 5.0.2
• UIM Configuration Pack 5.0.2
• UIM Integrated Installer 5.0.2
  | Update to version 5.0.2

Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):

None known

References:

• Complete CVSS Guide
• On-line Calculator V2
• OpenSSL Project vulnerability website

Related Information:
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement
None

Change History
6 June 2014: Original Copy Published

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