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Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL affect IBM b-type SAN switches and directors (CVE-2016-2108)

Security Bulletin


Summary

OpenSSL vulnerabilities were disclosed on May 3, 2016 by the OpenSSL Project. OpenSSL is used by IBM b-type SAN switches and directors has addressed the applicable CVE.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-2108
DESCRIPTION:
OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a buffer underflow when deserializing untrusted ASN.1 structures and later reserializes them. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to corrupt memory and trigger an out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 8.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/112853 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

FOS versions prior to 7.4.2

FOS versions prior to 8.1.0c

IBM Network Advisor versions prior to 14.0.2

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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Change History

23 Aug 2017: Initial Publish

*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:
27 February 2023

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