Security Bulletin: IBM Cisco SAN switches and directors are vulnerable to OpenSSL denial of service (CVE-2016-2180).

Summary

IBM Cisco SAN switches and directors OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds read in the TS_OBJ_print_bio function. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted time-stamp file to cause the application to crash.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-2180**
DESCRIPTION:** OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds read in the TS_OBJ_print_bio function. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially crafted time-stamp file to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/115829 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

NX-OS firmware 7.X and versions prior to 5.2.8i, 6.2.19, 8.1.

DCNM software prior to 10.2.1.

Remediation/Fixes

For fixes upgrade to NX-OS 5.2.8i, 6.2.19, 8.1 and DCNM 10.2.1.

NX-OS:

<http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/storage-networking/mds-9000-nx-os-san-os-software/products-release-notes-list.html&gt;

DCNM:
<http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/cloud-systems-management/prime-data-center-network-manager/products-release-notes-list.html&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None