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Security Bulletin:Multiple Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Openssl as shipped with IBM Security Verify products (CVE-2021-3711, CVE-2021-3712)

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Summary

Security Vulnerabilities found in OpenSSL were fixed in the following products: IBM Security Verify Gateway for Windows Login, IBM Security Verify Bridge for Directory Sync, IBM Security Verify Gateway for RADIUS

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-3711
DESCRIPTION:   OpenSSL is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the EVP_PKEY_decrypt() function within implementation of the SM2 decryption. By sending specially crafted SM2 content, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/208072 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-3712
DESCRIPTION:   OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an out-of-bounds read when processing ASN.1 strings. By sending specially crafted data, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to read contents of memory on the system or perform a denial of service attack.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/208073 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Security Verify Gateway for RADIUS1.x
IBM Security Verify Gateway for Windows Login1.x
IBM Security Verify Bridge for Directory Sync1.x

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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Change History

25 Oct 2021: Initial Publication

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
05 November 2021

Initial Publish date:
25 October 2021

UID

ibm16514021