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Security Bulletin: IBM BladeCenter Switch Modules are affected by information disclosure vulnerability (CVE-2014-8730)

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM BladeCenter Switch Modules have addressed the following TLS padding information disclosure vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2014-8730
DESCRIPTION: Multiple F5 products could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the failure to check the contents of the padding bytes when using CBC cipher suites of some Transport Layer Security (TLS) implementations. A remote user with the ability to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack could exploit this vulnerability via a POODLE (Padding Oracle On Downgraded Legacy Encryption) like attack to decrypt sensitive information and calculate the plaintext of secure connections.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99216 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

 

Product

Affected Version

IBM 1/10 Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch Module 6.8
IBM 1/10 Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch Module 7.4
IBM BladeCenter Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module 6.8

IBM BladeCenter Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module

7.8

Remediation/Fixes

Firmware fix versions are available on Fix Central:  http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/

Product

Fix Version

IBM 1/10 Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch Module
(ibm_fw_bcsw_110gup-6.8.29.0_anyos_noarch)		 6.8.29.0
IBM 1/10 Gb Uplink Ethernet Switch Module
(ibm_fw_bcsw_110gup-7.4.19.0_anyos_noarch)		 7.4.19.0
IBM BladeCenter Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module
(ibm_fw_bcsw_24-10g-6.8.29.0_anyos_noarch)		 6.8.29.0

IBM BladeCenter Virtual Fabric 10Gb Switch Module
(ibm_fw_bcsw_24-10g-7.8.16.0_anyos_noarch)

7.8.16.0

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

Lenovo Product Security Advisories

Change History

22 October 2018: Initial version published

*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.

Disclaimer

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Document Information

Modified date:
22 October 2018

UID

ibm10736107

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