Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL affect IBM Security Identity Governance (CVE-2016-8610 CVE-2017-3731)

Security Bulletin

Summary

There are multiple security vulnerabilities in various components used by IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence regarding OpenSSL

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 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)

CVEID: CVE-2017-3731
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds read when using a specific cipher. By sending specially crafted truncated packets, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using CHACHA20/POLY1305 to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/121312 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:L)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence 5.2.1

Remediation/Fixes

Product Name	VRMF	APAR	Remediation/Fix
IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence	5.2.1	None	5.2.1.6-ISS-SIGI-IF0007

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

26 April 2017: 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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Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL affect IBM Security Identity Governance (CVE-2016-8610 CVE-2017-3731)