Resource management error in OpenSSL - CVE-2016-2179

Vulnerability identifier: #VU1974

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-2179

CWE-ID: CWE-399

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources in the Datagram TLS (DTLS) implementation. A remote attacker can initiate and maintain multiple crafted DTLS sessions simultaneously and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

OpenSSL
Arch Linux
Fedora
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS
Slackware Linux
Opensuse
openssl (Alpine package)
Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode
lib32-openssl
openssl101e
openssl (Red Hat package)
openssl-solibs
openssl
SnapDrive for Windows
IBM Integrated Management Module
Integrated Management Module II (IMM2)
Network Advisor
Puppet Agent
FOS Firmware
NetWorker
Puppet Enterprise

Install update from vendor's website.

OpenSSL - addressed in versions 1.0.1u, 1.0.2i
openssl (Alpine package) - update to 1.0.1t-r2
SnapDrive for Windows - update to 7.1.4
Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode - update to 8.2.5
IBM Integrated Management Module - update to YUOOH4B - 1.53
Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) - update to 1AOO76I-6.00
lib32-openssl - update to 1
openssl101e - update to 1.0.1e-9.el5
openssl (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.0.1e-48.el6_8.3, 1.0.1e-51.el7_2.7
openssl-solibs - addressed in versions 1.0.1u, 1.0.2i
openssl - addressed in versions 1.0.1u, 1.0.2i
openssl - update to 1.0.2.i-1
openssl - addressed in versions 1.0.2j-1.fc23, 1.0.2j-1.fc24, 1.0.2j-1.fc25
Puppet Agent - update to 1.7.1
FOS Firmware - addressed in versions 7.4.2a, 8.01c
Network Advisor - update to 14.0.2
NetWorker - update to 19.10.0.0
Puppet Enterprise - update to 2016.4.0

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-2179
• https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git;a=commit;h=f5c7f5dfbaf0d2f7d946d0fe86f08e6bcb36ed0d

• openSUSE update for openssl-steam
• Solaris vulnerabilities in openssl (Alpine package)
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM FOS Firmware
• Multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Multiple N series Products
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Integrated Management Module (IMM) for System x & BladeCenter
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Integrated Management Module II (IMM2) for System x, Flex and BladeCenter systems
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Dell Networker
• Slackware Linux update for openssl
• Arch Linux update for lib32-openssl
• Arch Linux update for openssl
• Fedora 24 update for openssl
• Fedora 23 update for openssl
• Fedora 25 update for openssl
• Fedora EPEL 5 update for openssl101e
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 update for openssl
• Puppet Enterprise and Puppet Agent update for OpenSSL