Security Bulletin: OpenSSL vulnerability affects IBM Security Guardium (CVE-2017-3731)

Summary

OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds read when using a specific cipher.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-3731**
DESCRIPTION:** OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds read when using a specific cipher. By sending specially crafted truncated packets, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using CHACHA20/POLY1305 to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/121312&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Security Guardium V10.0, 10.0.1, 10.1, 10.1.2

Remediation/Fixes

Product

| VRMF| Remediation/First Fix
—|—|—
IBM Security Guardium| 10x| https://www-945.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=All&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_10.0p6023_SecurityUpdate&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

Workarounds and Mitigations

None