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Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL affect IBM Enterprise Content Management System Monitor (CVE-2016-6304, CVE-2016-2177)

Security Bulletin


Summary

OpenSSL vulnerabilities were disclosed on September 22 and 26, 2016 by the OpenSSL Project. OpenSSL is used by IBM Enterprise Content Management System Monitor. IBM Enterprise Content Management System Monitor has addressed the applicable CVEs.

Vulnerability Details


CVEID: CVE-2016-6304
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service. By repeatedly requesting renegotiation, a remote authenticated attacker could send an overly large OCSP Status Request extension to consume all available memory resources.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/117110 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID: CVE-2016-2177
DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the incorrect use of pointer arithmetic for heap-buffer boundary checks. By leveraging unexpected malloc behavior, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger an integer overflow and cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/113890 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions


IBM Enterprise Content Management System Monitor v 5.1.0
IBM Enterprise Content Management System Monitor v 5.2.0

Remediation/Fixes

Product

VRMRemediation
IBM Enterprise Content Management System Monitor5.1.0Use ECM SM 510-FP3-IF9 avaible at https://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/
IBM Enterprise Content Management System Monitor5.2.0Use ECM SM 5.2.0.4 avaible at https://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/

Workarounds and Mitigations

NA

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
On-line Calculator v2

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
On-line Calculator v3

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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement

None

Change History

Dec 7, 2016: Original 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:
17 June 2018

UID

swg21995038

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