Out-of-bounds read in OpenSSL - CVE-2017-3735

 

Out-of-bounds read in OpenSSL - CVE-2017-3735

Published: August 28, 2017 / Updated: March 30, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU8487
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-3735
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.

The vulnerability exists due to one-byte out-of-bounds read when parsing an IPAddressFamily extension in an X.509 certificate. A remote attacker can disguise text display of the certificate.


Affected software

OpenSSL
FL SWITCH 3006T-2FX ST
FL SWITCH 4008T-2GT-3FX SM
FL SWITCH 4008T-2GT-4FX SM
FL SWITCH 4008T-2SFP
FL SWITCH 3006T-2FX SM
FL SWITCH 3016T
FL SWITCH 3016
FL SWITCH 3016E
FL SWITCH 3012E-2SFX
FL SWITCH 4808E-16FX LC-4GC
FL SWITCH 3006T-2FX
FL SWITCH 3008T
FL SWITCH 3008
FL SWITCH 3004T-FX ST
FL SWITCH 3004T-FX
FL SWITCH 3005T
FL SWITCH 3005
FL SWITCH 4824E-4GC
FL SWITCH 4004T-8POE-4SFP
FL SWITCH 4000T-4POE-1SFP
FL SWITCH 3012E-2FX
FL SWITCH 4000T-8POE-2SFP-R
FL SWITCH 3012E-2FX SM
FL SWITCH 4800E-24FX SM-4GC
FL SWITCH 4800E-24FX-4GC
FL SWITCH 4012T-2GT-2FX ST
FL SWITCH 4012T 2GT 2FX
FL SWITCH 4808E-16FX SM LC-4GC
FL SWITCH 4808E-16FX-4GC
FL SWITCH 4808E-16FX ST-4GC
FL SWITCH 4808E-16FX SM ST-4GC
FL SWITCH 4808E-16FX SM-4GC
Amazon Linux AMI
Debian Linux
Arch Linux
Gentoo Linux
IBM AIX
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
FreeBSD
macOS
SUSE Linux
Ubuntu
openEuler
Fedora
openssl (Alpine package)
openssl
compat-openssl10
shim-debuginfo
shim-debugsource
shim
Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition
IBM MQ
NetWorker
IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Server
Cognos Insight
IBM Cognos Analytics
Flex System EN6131 40Gb Ethernet / IB6131 40Gb Infiniband Switch Firmware
SBR Carrier

How to mitigate CVE-2017-3735

Update to version 1.0.2m or 1.1.0g.

openssl (Alpine package) - addressed in versions 1.0.2m-r0, 1.0.2n-r0
IBM Cognos Analytics - update to 11.0.13
openssl - addressed in versions 1.0.2m-1.fc25, 1.1.0g-1.fc26, 1.1.0g-1.fc27
compat-openssl10 - addressed in versions 1.0.2m-1.fc26, 1.0.2m-1.fc27
Flex System EN6131 40Gb Ethernet / IB6131 40Gb Infiniband Switch Firmware - update to 3.6.6000
SBR Carrier - addressed in versions 8.4.1R13, 8.5.0R4
shim-debuginfo - update to 15-23
shim-debugsource - update to 15-23
shim - update to 15-23
NetWorker - update to 19.10.0.0

External References

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