Security Bulletin: IBM Real-time Compression Appliance is exposed to the following OpenSSL vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-0224, CVE-2014-0198, CVE-2010-5298.

Security Bulletin

Summary

Security vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSL that were reported on June 5, 2014 by the OpenSSL Project.
IBM Real-time Compression Appliance is exposed to CVE-2014-0224, CVE-2014-0198, CVE-2010-5298.

Vulnerability Details

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0224

DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack, caused by the use of weak keying material in SSL/TLS clients and servers. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially-crafted handshake to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks to decrypt and modify management traffic only.
CVSS Base Score: 5.8

CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0198
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL that has SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS enabled, is vulnerable to data injection across sessions or denial of service, by remote attackers via an SSL connection.
CVSS Base Score: 4.8

CVE-ID: CVE-2010-5298
DESCRIPTION: Open SSL is vulnerable to data injection across sessions and denial of service (use-after-free and parsing error) via an SSL connection in a multi threaded environment, caused when SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS is enabled.
CVSS Base Score: 4

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Real-time Compression Appliance versions:
4.1.2
3.9.1
3.8.0

Remediation/Fixes

Customers are advised to upgrade to the following releases: 3.8.1.06, 3.9.1.07 or 4.1.2.03

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References

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*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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Security Bulletin: IBM Real-time Compression Appliance is exposed to the following OpenSSL vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-0224, CVE-2014-0198, CVE-2010-5298.