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Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in OpenSSL (CVE-2021-3712) affects Power HMC

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Summary

OpenSSL is used by IBM Power Hardware Management Console (HMC) for cryptography toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) network protocols and related cryptography standards required by them. This bulletin provides a remediation for the impacted vulnerability, CVE-2021-3712 by upgrading IBM Power Hardware Management Console (HMC) respective PTF and thus addressing the exposure to the openssl vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-3712
DESCRIPTION:   OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an out-of-bounds read when processing ASN.1 strings. By sending specially crafted data, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to read contents of memory on the system or perform a denial of service attack.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/208073 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
HMC V10.1.1010.0V10.1.1010.0 and later
HMC V9.2.950.0V9.2.950.0 and later

Remediation/Fixes

The following fixes are available on IBM Fix Central at: http://www-933.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/

Product
VRMF
APAR
Remediation/Fix
Power HMC
V9.2.952.0 ppc
MB04331
Power HMC
V9.2.952.0 x86
MB04330
Power HMC
V10.1.1010.0 ppc
MB04335
Power HMC
V10.1.1010.0 x86
MB04334
 

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement

Change History

30 May 2022: Initial Publication

*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 Location

Worldwide


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Document Information

More support for:
Hardware Management Console V9

Software version:
All Versions

Document number:
6590797

Modified date:
30 May 2022

UID

ibm16590797

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