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IBM OS/400 OpenSSL DER Format Data Processing Vulnerability


Secunia ID

SA49107

CVE-ID

CVE-2012-2110, CVE-2012-2131

Release Date

07 May 2012

Criticality

Highly Critical

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Where

From remote

Impact
DoS (Denial of Service)

This includes vulnerabilities ranging from excessive resource consumption (e.g. causing a system to use a lot of memory) to crashing an application or an entire system.

System access

This covers vulnerabilities where malicious people are able to gain system access and execute arbitrary code with the privileges of a local user.

Description

IBM has acknowledged a vulnerability in OS/400, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise an application using the library.

For more information:
SA48847

The vulnerability is reported in version V6R1M0.

Solution

Apply patch 5733SC1.

Original Advisory

IBM (SE51936):
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas2d7439844d1fd14f0862579f5003c71ce