Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL affect IBM MQ Light (CVE-2015-0286)

Summary

OpenSSL vulnerabilities were disclosed on March 19, 2015 by the OpenSSL Project. OpenSSL is used by IBM MQ Light. IBM MQ Light has addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2015-0286

DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the ASN1_TYPE_cmp function when attempting to compare ASN.1 boolean types. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash any certificate verification operation and cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/101666&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Affected Products and Versions

The vulnerabilities affect users of the mqlight IBM MQ Light Client Module for Node.js® on all platforms at the following versions:
1.0.2014090800
1.0.2014090801
1.0.2014091000-red
1.0.2014091001

It also affects users of the mqlight-dev IBM MQ Light Client Module for Node.js between versions 1.0.2014090300 and 1.0.2014111002 inclusive.

Remediation/Fixes

Users of the IBM MQ Light Client Module for Node.js at an affected version should update to the latest version of the IBM MQ Light Client Module for Node.js as found on https://www.npmjs.com.

You should verify applying this fix does not cause any compatibility issues.

IBM recommends that you review your entire environment to identify vulnerable releases of OpenSSL and areas that enable the TLS or SSL protocol and take appropriate mitigation and remediation actions. This includes the Node.js runtime environment.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None