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In September 2016, openssl.org released a security advisory detailing several security issues. The following vulnerabilities that may affect the TLS/SSL data plane of ACOS devices reported in that advisory are addressed in this document.
| Item # | Vulnerability ID | Score Source | Score | Summary |
| 1 | CVE-2016-2177 | CVSS 3.0 | 9.8 Critical | Pointer arithmetic undefined behaviour |
The table below indicates releases of ACOS exposed to these vulnerabilities and ACOS releases that address them. ACOS release families not indicated below are unaffected by these vulnerabilities.
Customers using affected ACOS releases can overcome vulnerability exposures by updating to the indicated resolved release. If the table does not list a corresponding resolved or unaffected release, then no ACOS release update is currently available.
| Releases Affected | Releases Resolved or Unaffected |
|---|---|
| 4.1.4 – 4.1.4-P2 | 4.1.4-P3 |
| 4.1.2 – 4.1.2-P4 | 4.1.2-P5 |
| 4.1.1 – 4.1.1-P9 | 4.1.1-P10 |
| 4.1.0 – 4.1.0-P11 | 4.1.0-P12 |
| 2.7.2 – 2.7.2-P12 | 2.7.2-P13 |
| 2.7.1-GR1 – 2.7.1-GR1-Px | 2.7.2-P13, 4.1.0-P12, 4.1.1-P10, 4.1.4-P3 |
None.
Software updates that address these vulnerabilities are or will be published at the following URL:
http://www.a10networks.com/support/axseries/software-downloads
The following table shares brief descriptions for the vulnerabilities addressed in this document.
| Vulnerability ID | Vulnerability Description |
|---|---|
| CVE-2016-2177 |
Avoid some undefined pointer arithmetic A common idiom in the codebase is to check limits in the following manner: "p + len > limit" Where "p" points to some malloc'd data of SIZE bytes and limit == p + SIZE "len" here could be from some externally supplied data (e.g. from a TLS message). The rules of C pointer arithmetic are such that "p + len" is only well defined where len <= SIZE. Therefore the above idiom is actually undefined behaviour. For example this could cause problems if some malloc implementation provides an address for "p" such that "p + len" actually overflows for values of len that are too big and therefore p + len < limit. |
The following table shares brief descriptions for the vulnerabilities addressed in this document.
| Ref # | General Link |
|---|---|
| [1] | NIST NVD, CVE-2016-2177 |
None.
| Revision | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | October 10, 2018 |
Initial Publication |
| 2.0 | October 14, 2018 |
Corrected typo in 4.1.4 release chain affected releases. |
| 3.0 | November 9, 2018 |
Updated related link to correct CVE entry at NVD. |
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