Security Bulletin
Summary
OpenSSL vulnerabilities were disclosed by the OpenSSL Project. OpenSSL is used by Rational Tau. Rational Tau has addressed the applicable CVEs.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2016-2177
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the incorrect use of pointer arithmetic for heap-buffer boundary checks. By leveraging unexpected malloc behavior, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger an integer overflow and cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/113890 for 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:H)
Affected Products and Versions
4.3, 4.3.0.1, 4.3.0.2, 4.3.0.3, 4.3.0.4, 4.3.0.5, 4.3.0.6, 4.3.0.6 Interim Fix 1, 4.3.0.6 Interim Fix 2, 4.3.0.6 Interim Fix 3, 4.3.0.6 Interim Fix 4, 4.3.0.6 Interim Fix 5, 4.3.0.6 Interim Fix 6, 4.3.0.6 Interim Fix 7
Remediation/Fixes
Upgrade to Rational Tau Interim Fix 8 for 4.3.0.6
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Change History
09 February 2017: original document 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:
17 June 2018
UID
swg21993836