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Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL affect IBM QRadar SIEM (CVE-2015-0286, CVE-2015-0287, CVE-2015-0289)

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Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/260023
260023

Security Bulletin


Summary

OpenSSL vulnerabilities were disclosed on March 19, 2015 by the OpenSSL Project. OpenSSL is used by IBM QRadar SIEM. IBM QRadar SIEM has addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details


CVEID: CVE-2015-0286

DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the ASN1_TYPE_cmp function when attempting to compare ASN.1 boolean types. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash any certificate verification operation and cause a denial of service.

CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/101666 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)



CVEID: CVE-2015-0287

DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an error related to the reuse of a structure in ASN.1 parsing. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using an invalid write to corrupt memory and execute arbitrary code on the system.

CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/101668 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)



CVEID: CVE-2015-0289

DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to properly handle missing outer ContentInfo by the PKCS#7 parsing code. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blob to trigger a NULL pointer dereference.

CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/#/vulnerabilities/101669 for the 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 QRadar SIEM 7.2.4 Patch 4 and earlier
  • IBM QRadar SIEM 7.1 MR2 Patch 10 and earlier

Remediation/Fixes

Product

VRMFRemediation/First Fix
QRadar SIEM7.2.4Patch 4 iFix01 - 7.2.4-QRADAR-QRSIEM-1076569INT
QRadar SIEM7.1 MR2Patch 10 iFix01 - 7.1.0-QRADAR-QRSIEM-1076519INT

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

April 2, 2015: original version 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.

Disclaimer

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg21701086