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Security Bulletin: TS3000 code levels 5.x and 7.x affected by various OpenSSL vulnerabilities

Created by Jujuan Mitchell on

Security Bulletin


Summary

Six security vulnerabilities have been found that affect most levels of TSSC code.

Vulnerability Details

A malicious user could exploit these vulnerabilities to decrypt and modify traffic sent between a client and a server, to execute arbitrary code on a client or server, crash a server, or implement a denial-of-service attack.


VendorVendor IDVendor TitleIncluded CVEs
RedHatRHSA-2014:0625
Important: openssl security update
CVE-2010-5298
CVE-2014-0195
CVE-2014-0198
CVE-2014-0221
CVE-2014-0224
CVE-2014-3470

DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols, as well as a full-strength, general purpose cryptography library.

It was found that OpenSSL clients and servers could be forced, via a specially crafted handshake packet, to use weak keying material for communication. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to decrypt and modify traffic between a client and a server. (CVE-2014-0224)

Note: In order to exploit this flaw, both the server and the client must be using a vulnerable version of OpenSSL; the server must be using OpenSSL version 1.0.1 and above, and the client must be using any version of OpenSSL.

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way OpenSSL handled invalid DTLS packet fragments. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on a DTLS client or server. (CVE-2014-0195)

Multiple flaws were found in the way OpenSSL handled read and write buffers when the SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS mode was enabled. A TLS/SSL client or server using OpenSSL could crash or unexpectedly drop connections when processing certain SSL traffic. (CVE-2010-5298, CVE-2014-0198)

A denial of service flaw was found in the way OpenSSL handled certain DTLS ServerHello requests. A specially crafted DTLS handshake packet could cause a DTLS client using OpenSSL to crash. (CVE-2014-0221)

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the way OpenSSL performed anonymous Elliptic Curve Diffie Hellman (ECDH) key exchange. A specially crafted handshake packet could cause a TLS/SSL client that has the anonymous ECDH cipher suite enabled to crash. (CVE-2014-3470)

CVSS Base Score: 5.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/93586 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

TSSC 5.12, 7.0-7.3

Remediation/Fixes

Update to TSSC 7.3.15 and apply OpenSSL patch “sslUpdate.”

Workarounds and Mitigations

No known workarounds. TSSC should be updated to 7.3.15 and patched.

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Change History

13 June 2014: Original bulletin published

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Document Information

Modified date:
19 August 2022

UID

ssg1S1004695