Security Bulletin: Denial Of Service vulnerability in OpenSSL affects IBM Safer Payments (CVE-2020-1967)

Summary

IBM Safer Payments is affected by OpenSSL Segmentation fault vulnerability. This issue has been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-1967
**DESCRIPTION:**OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference. By passing specially crafted data to the SSL_check_chain() function during or after a TLS 1.3 handshake, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause server or client applications to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/180181 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s): IBM Safer Payments

Version(s): v6.1.0.00, v6.1.0.01, v6.1.0.02, v6.1.0.03, v6.1.0.04, v6.2.0.00, v6.2.1.00

Remediation/Fixes

Update the IBM Safer Payments 6.1.x cluster to at least version 6.1.0.05. A fix will also be available in IBM Safer Payments version 6.2.1.01.

Refer to the IBM Safer Payments Knowledge Database to download the updates.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None