Security Bulletin
Summary
Security vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL that were reported by the OpenSSL Project.
Vulnerability Details
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4353
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference when handling malicious S/MIME messages. By sending a specially-crafted TLS handshake, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a connecting client to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90201 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-6449
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the ssl_get_algorithm2 function. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially-crafted traffic from a TLS 1.2 client to cause the daemon to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90068 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-6450
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to properly maintain data structures for digest and encryption contexts by the DTLS retransmission implementation. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the daemon to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/90069 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Affected Products and Versions
- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 5.2.0 through 5.2.1
- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 5.1.x
- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 4.x
The versions listed above apply to all licensed offerings of Tivoli Storage Productivity Center, including IBM SmartCloud Virtual Storage Center Storage Analytics Engine.
System Storage Productivity Center is affected if it has one of the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center versions listed above.
The following are not affected and do not require an update:
- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center 5.2.1.1
- Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication - all versions
Remediation/Fixes
The recommended solution is to apply a fix pack or refresh pack for each named product as soon as practicable.
For 5.2.0 through 5.2.1:
- Apply refresh pack 5.2.2 or later (APAR IT03267)
For 5.1.0 through 5.1.1.3:
- Apply fix pack 5.1.1.4 or later (APAR IT03267)
For 4.1.0 through 4.2.2 FP5:
- Apply fix pack 4.2.2 FP6 or later (APAR IT03276)
Latest Downloads for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center
Workarounds and Mitigations
If you cannot apply the fix provided, you can mitigate exposure in Tivoli Storage Productivity Center by removing all connections to XIV storage subsystems and shutting down the Storage Resource Agents
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References
Acknowledgement
None
Change History
31 July 2014: 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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Document Information
Modified date:
19 August 2022
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swg21680143