Security Bulletin: Vulnerability affects Watson Explorer Foundational Components (CVE-2020-1967)

Summary

Security vulnerability affects IBM Watson Explorer Foundational Components.

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

Remediation/Fixes

Follow these steps to upgrade to the required version of OpenSSL.

The table reflects product names at the time the specified versions were released. To use the links to Fix Central in this table, you must first log in to the IBM Support: Fix Central site at <http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/&gt;.

12.0.0,

12.0.1,

12.0.2.0 - 12.0.2.2, 12.0.3.0 - 12.0.3.3

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Upgrade to Version 12.0.3.4.

See Watson Explorer Version 12.0.3.4 Foundational Components for download information and instructions.

IBM Watson Explorer
Foundational Components| 11.0.0.0 - 11.0.0.3,
11.0.1,
11.0.2.0 - 11.0.2.7|

Upgrade to Version 11.0.2.8.

See Watson Explorer Version 11.0.2.8 Foundational Components for download information and instructions.

IBM Watson Explorer
Foundational Components| 10.0.0.0 - 10.0.0.8

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Upgrade to Version 10.0.0.9.

See Watson Explorer Version 10.0.0.9 Foundational Components for download information and instructions.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None