Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in OpenSSL affects IBM Flex System FC5022 16Gb SAN Scalable Switch and IBM Flex System EN4023 10Gb Scalable Switch (CVE-2016-2108)

Summary

OpenSSL vulnerabilities were disclosed on May 3, 2016 by the OpenSSL Project. OpenSSL is used by IBM Flex System FC5022 16Gb SAN Scalable Switch and IBM Flex System EN4023 10Gb Scalable Switch. IBM Flex System FC5022 16Gb SAN Scalable Switch and IBM Flex System EN4023 10Gb Scalable Switch have addressed the applicable CVE.

Vulnerability Details

Summary

OpenSSL vulnerabilities were disclosed on May 3, 2016 by the OpenSSL Project. OpenSSL is used by IBM Flex System FC5022 16Gb SAN Scalable Switch and IBM Flex System EN4023 10Gb Scalable Switch. IBM Flex System FC5022 16Gb SAN Scalable Switch and IBM Flex System EN4023 10Gb Scalable Switch have addressed the applicable CVE.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2016-2108

Description: OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a buffer underflow when deserializing untrusted ASN.1 structures and later reserializes them. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to corrupt memory and trigger an out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the system.

CVSS Base Score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/112853&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes:

Firmware fix versions are available on Fix Central:
<http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/&gt;.

Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):

None

References:

• Complete CVSS v3 Guide
• On-line Calculator v3

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

Acknowledgement

None

Change History
11 July 2017: Original Copy 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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