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Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by OpenSSL denial of service vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-23840, CVE-2021-23841)

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Security Guardium has fixed these vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-23840
DESCRIPTION:   OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an integer overflow in CipherUpdate. By sending an overly long argument, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/196848 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:   CVE-2021-23841
DESCRIPTION:   OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in the X509_issuer_and_serial_hash() function. By parsing the issuer field, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/196847 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Security Guardium11.0
IBM Security Guardium11.1
IBM Security Guardium11.2
IBM Security Guardium11.3
IBM Security Guardium11.4

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerabilities by updating your systems.

 ProductVersions Fix
IBM Security Guardium11.0http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=11.0&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_11.0p45_Bundle_May-03-2022&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
IBM Security Guardium11.1http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=11.0&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_11.0p160_Bundle_Mar-23-2022&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
IBM Security Guardium11.2http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=11.0&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_11.0p270_Bundle_Feb-24-2022&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
IBM Security Guardium11.3http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=11.0&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_11.0p350_Bundle_Jan-13-2022&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
IBM Security Guardium11.4http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=11.0&platform=Linux&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_11.0p430_Bundle_Apr-28-2022&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement

Change History

15 Mar 2022: Initial Publication
12 May 2022: 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:
01 June 2022

UID

ibm16563575

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