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Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL affect IBM System x, BladeCenter and Flex Systems Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) (CVE-2015-0286 CVE-2015-0288 CVE-2015-0289 CVE-2015-0209 CVE-2015-0287)

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Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/868286
868286

Security Bulletin


Summary

OpenSSL vulnerabilities were disclosed on March 19th, 2015 by the OpenSSL Project. OpenSSL is used by IBM System x, BladeCenter and Flex Systems Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). IBM System x, BladeCenter and Flex Systems UEFI have addressedthe applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

Summary

OpenSSL vulnerabilities were disclosed on March 19th, 2015 by the OpenSSL Project. OpenSSL is used by IBM System x, BladeCenter and Flex Systems Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). IBM System x, BladeCenter and Flex Systems UEFI have addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-0286

Description: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the ASN1_TYPE_cmp function when attempting to compare ASN.1 boolean types. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to crash any certificate verification operation and cause a denial of service.

CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/101666 for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-0288

Description: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in the X509_to_X509_REQ function. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger a NULL pointer dereference.

CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/101675 for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-0289

Description: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to properly handle missing outer ContentInfo by the PKCS#7 parsing code. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a malformed ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blob to trigger a NULL pointer dereference.

CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/101669 for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-0209

Description: OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a use-after-free error in the d2i_ECPrivateKey or EVP_PKCS82PKEY function. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a malformed Elliptic Curve (EC) private-key file to corrupt memory and execute arbitrary code on the system and cause a denial of service.

CVSS Base Score: 6.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/101674 for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-0287

Description: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error related to the reuse of a structure in ASN.1 parsing. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using an invalid write to corrupt memory and cause a denial of service.

CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/101668 for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Affected products and versions

System Affected Version
BladeCenter HS23 7875/1929 tke146b-1.70
BladeCenter HS23E 8038/8039 ahe146b-2.11
Flex System x220 7906/2585 kse144b-1.61
Flex System x222 7916 cce1146d-1.30
Flex System x240 8737/8738/7863/8956 b2e146h-1.60
Flex System x440 7917 cne146d-1.50
NeXtScale nx360 M4 5455 fhe110d-1.40
System x280, x480, x880 X6 7903 n2e112h-1.00
System x3100 M5 5457 j9e118c-1.07
System x3250 M5 5458 jue118c-1.07
System x3300 M4 7382 yae142b-1.40
System x3500 M4 7383 y5e142c-1.82
System x3550 M4 7914 d7e146c-1.60
System x3630 M4 7158/7160 bee146c-2.12
System x3650 M4 BD 5466 yoe106c-1.20
System x3650 M4 7915 vve144c-1.92
System x3750 M4 8722/8752/8733/8718 koe146g-1.60
System x3850 X6 (4S) 3837/3839,
System x3950 X6 (8S) 3839		 a8e114h-1.00
System x iDataPlex dx360 M4 7912 tde144b-1.61

Remediation/Fixes

It is recommended to update to the firmware level listed below, or later version. Firmware updates are available through IBM Fix Central: http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/.

You should verify applying this fix does not cause any compatibility issues.

Tip: To locate UEFI fix versions on Fix Central search on the version prefix, such as "b2e1", "fhe1" or "koe1".

System Fixed Version
BladeCenter HS23 7875/1929 tke148b-1.80
BladeCenter HS23E 8038/8039 ahe148a-2.20
Flex System x220 7906/2585 kse146a-1.70
Flex System x222 7916 cce150b-1.50
Flex System x240 8737/8738/7863/8956 b2e150e-1.70
Flex System x440 7917 cne148b-1.60
NeXtScale nx360 M4 5455 fhe112a-1.50
System x280, x480, x880 X6 7903 n2e114c-1.10
System x3100 M5 5457 j9e120e-1.20
System x3250 M5 5458 jue120e-1.20
System x3300 M4 7382 yae144a-1.50
System x3500 M4 7383 y5e144c-1.92
System x3550 M4 7914 d7e148b-1.91
System x3630 M4 7158/7160 bee148b-2.21
System x3650 M4 BD 5466 yoe108c-1.30
System x3650 M4 7915 vve146a-2.00
System x3750 M4 8722/8752/8733/8718 koe148c-1.70
System x3850 X6 (4S) 3837/3839,
System x3950 X6 (8S) 3839		 a8e116c-1.10
System x iDataPlex dx360 M4 7912 tde146a-1.70

Workarounds and Mitigations

None.

Reference

Related Information
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement

None.

Change History
15 December 2015: Original Version Published
13 April 2016: Flex System x222 7916 added

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Document Location

Worldwide

Operating System

BladeCenter:Operating system independent / None

System x:Operating system independent / None

PureFlex System and Flex System:Operating system independent / None

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Document Information

Modified date:
30 January 2019

UID

ibm1MIGR-5099070

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