Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL affect IBM Systems Director (CVE-2014-3513 and CVE-2014-3567)

Summary

OpenSSL vulnerabilities were disclosed on October 15, 2014 by the OpenSSL Project. OpenSSL is used by IBM Systems Director. IBM Systems Director has addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

Abstract

OpenSSL vulnerabilities were disclosed on October 15, 2014 by the OpenSSL Project. OpenSSL is used by IBM Systems Director. IBM Systems Director has addressed the applicable CVEs.

Content

Vulnerability Details:

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3513

Description: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory leak in the DTLS Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP) extension parsing code. By sending multiple specially-crafted handshake messages, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust all available memory of an SSL/TLS or DTLS server.

CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/97035&gt; for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3567

Description: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory leak when handling failed session ticket integrity checks. By sending an overly large number of invalid session tickets, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust all available memory of an SSL/TLS or DTLS server.

CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/97036&gt; for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Affected products and versions

IBM Systems Director:

• 5.2.x.x
• 6.1.x.x
• 6.2.0.x
• 6.2.1.x
• 6.3.0.0
• 6.3.1.x
• 6.3.2.x
• 6.3.3.x
• 6.3.5.0

Remediation/Fixes:

Releases 5.2.x.x, 6.1.x.x are unsupported and will not be fixed.

Follow these instructions to obtain fixes for releases:

• 6.2.0.x
• 6.2.1.x
• 6.3.0.0
• 6.3.1.x
• 6.3.2.x
• 6.3.3.x
• 6.3.5.0

1. For all releases and platforms download this fix package: SysDir6_2_0_0_6_3_5_IT06807_IT06811_IT06813_IT06819_IT06874
2. In the table beneath follow the instructions for the desired platform by navigating to this link: <http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/support/&gt; and searching for the technote in shown in the table beneath.
   Product | VRMF | APAR | Associated Technote
   —|—|—|—
   IBM Systems Director and IBM Systems Director Platform Agent | Xlinux Platform Agent 6.2.0.x to 6.3.5 | IT06811 | 733117563
   IBM Systems Director and IBM Systems Director Platform Agent | Windows Platform Agent 6.2.0.x to 6.3.5 | IT06807 | 733137613
   IBM Systems Director and IBM Systems Director Platform Agent | Power Linux Platform Agent 6.2.0.x to 6.3.5 | IT06813 | 733106096
   IBM Systems Director and IBM Systems Director Platform Agent | Zlinux Platform Agent 6.2.0.x to 6.3.5 | IT06819 | 733156046
   IBM Systems Director and IBM Systems Director Platform Agent | AIX Platform Agent 6.2.0.x to 6.3.5 | NA | 733116045
   IBM Systems Director Platform Agent | IBMi Platform Agent 6.2.0.x to 6.3.5 | NA | 733116045
   IBM Systems Director Platform Agent | KVM Platform Agent 6.3.5 | IT06874 | 733176501

Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):

None

Reference:

• Complete CVSS Guide
• On-line Calculator V2

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

Acknowledgement

None

Change History
20 February 2015: 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 Flash.

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