Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) affects the IBM FlashSystem model V840

Summary

There is a vulnerability in Mozilla NSS to which the IBM® FlashSystem™ V840 is susceptible. An exploit of this vulnerability (CVE-2016-9074) could make the system susceptible to timing side-channel attacks which could be leveraged to allow launch of further attacks on the system

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-9074 DESCRIPTION: Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS), as used in Mozilla Firefox, could provide weaker than expected security, caused by an insufficient mitigation of timing side-channel attacks. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain launch further attacks on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/118942 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Storage Node machine type and models (MTMs) affected: 9840-AE1 and 9843-AE1
Controller Node MTMs affected: 9846-AC0, 9848-AC0, 9846-AC1, and 9848-AC1

Supported storage node code versions which are affected
· VRMFs prior to 1.3.0.7
· VRMFs prior to 1.4.5.0

Supported controller node code versions which are affected
· VRMFs prior to 7.5.0.10 or 7.5.1.5
· VRMFs prior to 7.6.1.7
· VRMFs prior to 7.7.1.6
· VRMFs prior to 7.8.0.2 or 7.8.1.0

Remediation/Fixes

V840 MTMs

| VRMF| APAR| Remediation/First Fix
—|—|—|—
Storage nodes:
9846-AE1 &
9848-AE1

Controller nodes:
9846-AC0,
9846-AC1,
9848-AC0, &
9848-AC1| _Code fixes are available, the minimum remediating VRMF by code stream:

___Storage Node VRMF __
_1.4 stream: 1.4.5.0 _
1.3 stream: 1.3.0.7

__Controller Node VRMF __
7.8 stream: 7.8.0.2 or 7.8.1.0
7.7 stream: 7.7.1.6
7.6 stream: 7.6.1.7
7.5 stream: 7.5.0.10 or 7.5.1.5| _ _N/A| FlashSystem V840 fixes**for storage and controller node **are available @ IBM’s Fix Central

Workarounds and Mitigations

None