Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in OpenSSL affects LCM8 & LCM16 KVM Switch Firmware and GCM16 & GCM32 KVM Switch Firmware (CVE-2016-8610)

Summary

LCM8 & LCM16 KVM Switch Firmware and GCM16 & GCM32 KVM Switch Firmware have addressed the following vulnerability in OpenSSL.

Vulnerability Details

Summary

LCM8 & LCM16 KVM Switch Firmware and GCM16 & GCM32 KVM Switch Firmware have addressed the following vulnerability in OpenSSL.

Vulnerability Details:

CVEID: CVE-2016-8610

Description: SSL/TLS protocol is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when processing ALERT packets during a SSL handshake. By sending specially-crafted packets, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to stop responding.

CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/118296&gt; 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:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes:

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

Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):

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
23 March 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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