Security Bulletin: IBM Safer Payments v5.7 to v6.3 releases are affected by an OpenSSL Security Advisory (CVE-2021-3711)

Summary

IBM Safer Payments v5.7, v6.0, v6.1, v6.2, v6.3 are affected by an OpenSSL Security Advisory. IBM Safer Payments has resolved this vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-3711
**DESCRIPTION:**OpenSSL is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the EVP_PKEY_decrypt() function within implementation of the SM2 decryption. By sending specially crafted SM2 content, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/208072 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Update the IBM Safer Payments cluster to at least version 5.7.0.15, 6.0.0.12, 6.1.0.10, 6.2.1.05, 6.3.0.02.

Open SSL version was updated to 1.0.2.za for v5.7 and v6.0 and to 1.1.1l for v6.1, v6.2 and v6.3.

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None