SB20190115109 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle Communications Session Border Controller

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SB20190115109 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Oracle Communications Session Border Controller

Published: January 15, 2019

Security Bulletin ID SB20190115109
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-0732)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to improper handling of large prime values by the affected software during key agreement operations in a Transport Layer Security (TLS) handshake using an Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman (DHE) based cipher suite. A remote attacker can send a large prime value from a malicious OpenSSL server to a targeted OpenSSL client and cause the client to stop responding while generating a key for the prime value.


2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-5390)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to the system uses an inefficient TCP reassembly algorithm. A remote attacker can send specially crafted packets within ongoing TCP sessions to consume excessive CPU resources and cause the service to crash.

Note: The issue has been called "SegmentSmack".


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References