Security Bulletin: Security vulnerabilities in OpenSSL used by IBM PureApplication Systems ( CVE-2017-3737 CVE-2017-3738)

Summary

OpenSSL, used by the IBM PureApplication System, has security vulnerabilities were disclosed by OpenSSL project. The following vulnerabilities have been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-3737 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability in multiple Oracle products could allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause low confidentiality impact, low integrity impact, and high availability impact.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/136077 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:L/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2017-3738 DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an overflow bug in the AVX2 Montgomery multiplication procedure used in exponentiation with 1024-bit moduli. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain information about the private key. Note: In order to exploit this vulnerability, the server would have to share the DH1024 private key among multiple clients, which is no longer an option since CVE-2016-0701.
CVSS Base Score: 3.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/136078 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM PureApplication System V2.2.3.0
IBM PureApplication System V2.2.3.1
IBM PureApplication System V2.2.3.2
IBM PureApplication System V2.2.4.0
IBM PureApplication System V2.2.5.0
IBM PureApplication System V2.2.5.1

Remediation/Fixes

The solution is to upgrade the IBM PureApplication System to the following fix level:

IBM PureApplication System V2.2.5.2

IBM recommends upgrading to a fixed version of the product. Contact IBM for assistance.

Link to download:

https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/downloadFixes?parent=PureSystems&product=ibm/WebSphere/PureApplication+System&release=2.2.5.2&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=openssl_patch_Apr2018-sys&includeRequisites=1&includeSupersedes=0&downloadMethod=ddp

Information on upgrading can be found here: <http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27039159&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None