Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in strongswan affect IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM) (CVE-2017-9023, CVE-2017-9022)

Summary

IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM) has addressed the following vulnerabilities in strongswan.

Vulnerability Details

Summary

IBM BladeCenter Advanced Management Module (AMM) has addressed the following vulnerabilities in strongswan.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-9023

Description: strongSwan is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper handling of CHOICE types in ASN.1 parser and x509 plugin. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.

CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/126804&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2017-9022

Description: strongSwan is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper validation of RSA public keys passed to the gmp plugin. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.

CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/126803&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Firmware fix versions are available on Fix Central:
<http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/&gt;.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

References

• Complete CVSS v3 Guide
• On-line Calculator v3

Related Information
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog
Lenovo Product Security Advisories

Acknowledgement

None

Change History
07 December 2017: Original Copy Published

• The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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