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Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL affect GCM16 & GCM32 KVM Switch Firmware

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM GCM16 & GCM32 KVM Switch Firmware have addressed the following vulnerabilities in OpenSSL.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2019-1547
DESCRIPTION:   OpenSSL could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the ability to construct an EC group missing the cofactor using explicit parameters instead of using a named curve. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain full key recovery during an ECDSA signature operation.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/167020 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID:   CVE-2019-1563
DESCRIPTION:   OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a padding oracle attack in PKCS7_dataDecode and CMS_decrypt_set1_pkey. By sending an overly large number of messages to be decrypted, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 3.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/167022 for the current score.
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

ProductAffected Version
GCM16/32 KVM Switch Firmware2.0

Remediation/Fixes

Firmware fixes are available on Fix Central: http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/

ProductFix Version

GCM16/32 KVM Switch Firmware

(ibm_fw_gcm16_gcm32_v2.8.3.25691_anyos_noarch)

2.8.3.25691

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

19 Jan 2021: Initial Publication

*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 Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
20 January 2021

Initial Publish date:
19 January 2021

UID

ibm16406310