Security Bulletin
Summary
OpenSSL vulnerabilities were disclosed on June 11, 2015 by the OpenSSL Project. OpenSSL is used by IBM System x, BladeCenter and Flex Systems Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. IBM System x, BladeCenter and Flex Systems Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) have addressed the applicable CVEs.
Vulnerability Details
Summary
OpenSSL vulnerabilities were disclosed on June 11, 2015 by the OpenSSL Project. OpenSSL is used by IBM System x, BladeCenter and Flex Systems Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. IBM System x, BladeCenter and Flex Systems Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) have addressed the applicable CVEs.
Vulnerability Details:
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-1789
Description: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted certificate or CRL to trigger a segmentation fault.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/103779
for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-1790
Description: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the improper handling of missing inner EncryptedContent by the PKCS#7 parsing code. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using specially crafted ASN.1-encoded PKCS#7 blobs with missing content to trigger a NULL pointer dereference.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/103780
for current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-1792
Description: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when verifying a signedData message. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using an unknown hash function OID to cause the application to enter into an infinite loop.
CVSS Base Score: 5
CVSS Temporal Score: See http://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/103781
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 | tke148b-1.80 |
| BladeCenter HS23E 8038/8039 | ahe148a-2.20 |
| Flex System x220 7906/2585 | kse146a-1.70 |
| Flex x222 7916 | cce1146d-1.30 |
| 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 |
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 | tke150b-1.90 |
| BladeCenter HS23E 8038/8039 | ahe150b-2.31 |
| Flex System x220 7906/2585 | kse148b-1.81 |
| Flex x222 7916 | cce150b-1.50 |
| Flex System x240 8737/8738/7863/8956 | b2e152c-1.80 |
| Flex System x440 7917 | cne150b-1.70 |
| NeXtScale nx360 M4 5455 | fhe114c01.60 |
| System x280, x480, x880 X6 7903 | n2e116c-1.20 |
| System x3100 M5 5457 | j9e122d-1.30 |
| System x3250 M5 5458 | jue122d-1.30 |
| System x3300 M4 7382 | yae146b-1.60 |
| System x3500 M4 7383 | y5e146b-2.01 |
| System x3550 M4 7914 | d7e150c-2.02 |
| System x3630 M4 7158/7160 | bee150b-2.31 |
| System x3650 M4 BD 5466 | yoe110b-1.40 |
| System x3650 M4 7915 | vve148b-2.11 |
| System x3750 M4 8722/8752/8733/8718 | koe150b-1.80 |
| System x3850 X6 (4S) 3837/3839, System x3950 X6 (8S) 3839 |
a8e118d-1.21 |
| System x iDataPlex dx360 M4 7912 | tde148b-1.81 |
Note: A fix for CVE-2014-8176 was provided in OpenSSL versions 0.9.8za, 1.0.0m, and 1.0.1h.
Workarounds and Mitigations:
None.
References:
Related Information:
IBM
Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security
Incident Response Blog
Acknowledgement
None.
Change History
11 April 2016: Original version published
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Modified date:
30 January 2019
UID
ibm1MIGR-5099214