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Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by Sweet32: Birthday attacks on 64-bit block ciphers in TLS (CVE-2016-2183)

Created by Ofra Shinitzky on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/287327
287327

Security Bulletin


Summary

OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error in the in the Triple-DES on 64-bit block cipher, used as a part of the SSL/TLS protocol. This vulnerability is known as the SWEET32 Birthday attack. IBM Security Guardium has fixed this vulnerability

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-2183
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error in the in the Triple-DES on 64-bit block cipher, used as a part of the SSL/TLS protocol. By capturing large amounts of encrypted traffic between the SSL/TLS server and the client, a remote attacker able to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack could exploit this vulnerability to recover the plaintext data and obtain sensitive information. This vulnerability is known as the SWEET32 Birthday attack.
CVSS Base Score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/116337 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Security Guardium V8.2

IBM Security Guardium V 9, 9.1, 9.5

IBM Security Guardium V10, 10.0.1, 10.1, 10.1.2

Remediation/Fixes

Product

VRMFRemediation/First Fix
IBM Security Guardium 8.2End of Service Sept 30 2016, Full Extended Support customers must contact L2 support for more information
IBM Security Guardium 9xhttp://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%2BSecurity&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=All&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_9.0p6022_SecurityUpdate&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
IBM Security Guardium 10xhttp://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%2BSecurity&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=All&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_10.0p6022_SecurityUpdate&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
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Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

12/20/2016 - 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.

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Document Information

Modified date:
16 June 2018

UID

swg21995658

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