Security Bulletin: IBM Tivoli Monitoring Basic Services component. (CVE-2016-2183)

Summary

Vulnerability in GSKit component of IBM Tivoli Monitoring has been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-2183**
DESCRIPTION:** OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error in the DES/3DES cipher, used as a part of the SSL/TLS protocol. By capturing large amounts of encrypted traffic between the SSL/TLS server and the client, a remote attacker able to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack could exploit this vulnerability to recover the plaintext data and obtain sensitive information. This vulnerability is known as the SWEET32 Birthday attack.
CVSS Base Score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/116337 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Basic service module kdebe for IBM Tivoli Monitoring 622 through 622 Fix Pack 9, 623 through 623 Fix Pack 5 and 630 through 630 Fix Pack 7 is affected for the following components: TEMA(KAX/KGL), TEMS(KMS), TEPS(KCQ) and Automation Server(KAS)

Remediation/Fixes

The patches below update the TEMA(KAX/KGL), TEMS(KMS), TEPS(KCQ) and Automation Server(KAS) components which are shipped as part of ITM

The technote Upgrading Shared Components for IBM Tivoli Monitoring Agents provides information on updating Shared Libraries.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None