IBM Flex System FC5022 16Gb SAN Scalable Switch has addressed the following vulnerability in OpenSSH.
Summary
IBM Flex System FC5022 16Gb SAN Scalable Switch has addressed the following vulnerability in OpenSSH.
Vulnerability Details:
CVEID: CVE-2016-6210
Description: OpenSSH could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by the increased amount of time to calculate SHA256/SHA512 hash than BLOWFISH hash. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a covert timing channel to enumerate users on a system that runs SSHD.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/115128> for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
Affected Products and Versions
Product | Affected Version |
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IBM Flex System FC5022 16Gb SAN Scalable Switch | 8.0 |
Remediation/Fixes:
Firmware fix versions are available on Fix Central:
<http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/>.
Product | Fix Version |
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IBM Flex System FC5022 16Gb SAN Scalable Switch | |
(brcd_fw_bcsw_8.1.0a_anyos_noarch) | 8.1.0a |
Workaround(s) & Mitigation(s):
None
References:
Related Information:
IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog
Lenovo Product Security Advisories
Acknowledgement
None
Change History
09 August 2017: Original Copy Published
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