Security Bulletin
Summary
OpenSSL vulnerabilities were disclosed on March 1, 2016 by the OpenSSL Project. OpenSSL is used by IBM Aspera Transfer Clustered Manager, IBM Aspera faspex on Demand, IBM Aspera Server on Demand, IBM Aspera Application Platform on Demand, and IBM Aspera Azure on Demand.
The named applications referenced above have addressed the applicable CVEs.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID:CVE-2016-0705
DESCRIPTION:OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a double-free error when parsing DSA private keys. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to corrupt memory and cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: Seehttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111140for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID:CVE-2016-0798
DESCRIPTION:OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory leak in SRP servers. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted username value to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: Seehttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111141for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID:CVE-2016-0797
DESCRIPTION:OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in the BN_hex2bn/BN_dec2bn() function. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially crafted data to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base Score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: Seehttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111142for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
CVEID:CVE-2016-0702
DESCRIPTION:OpenSSL could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a side-channel attack against a system based on the Intel Sandy-Bridge microarchitecture. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to recover RSA keys.
CVSS Base Score: 2.9
CVSS Temporal Score: Seehttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/111144for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
Affected Products and Versions
IBM Aspera Transfer Clustered Manager 3.6.0 or earlier
IBM Aspera faspex on Demand 3.6.0 or earlier
IBM Aspera Server on Demand 3.6.0 or earlier
IBM Aspera Application Platform on Demand 3.6.0 or earlier
IBM Aspera Azure on Demand 3.5.6 or earlier
Remediation/Fixes
Upgrade to the fixed versions from the cloud provider:
IBM Aspera Transfer Clustered Manager 3.6.2 or later
IBM Aspera faspex on Demand 3.7.1 or later
IBM Aspera Server on Demand 3.7.1 or later
IBM Aspera Application Platform on Demand 3.7.1 or later
IBM Aspera Azure on Demand 3.7.1 or later
For unsupported versions of IBM Aspera on Demand products, IBM recommends upgrading to a fixed, supported version/release/platform of the product.
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References
*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:
15 June 2018
UID
swg22011148