Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in OpenSSL affects IBM MQ Appliance (CVE-016-8610)

Summary

There is a vulnerability in OpenSSL used by IBM MQ Appliance. IBM MQ Appliance has addressed the vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-8610 DESCRIPTION: The 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 plain-text ALERT packets, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to consume all available CPU resources. Note: This vulnerability is called “SSL-Death-Alert”.
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

• IBM MQ Appliance 8.0
  Maintenance levels between 8.0.0.0 and 8.0.0.6

IBM MQ Appliance 9.0.x Continuous Delivery (CD) Release
Continuous delivery updates 9.0.1 and 9.0.2

Remediation/Fixes

IBM MQ Appliance 8.0

Apply fixpack 8.0.0.7

IBM MQ Appliance 9.0.x Continuous Delivery (CD) release

Apply continuous delivery update 9.0.3

Workarounds and Mitigations

None