PSIRT Advisories

OpenSSL Security Advisory [22 Sept 2016]

Summary

The OpenSSL project released an advisory on Sept 22nd, 2016, describing 1 High, 1 Medium and 12 Low severity vulnerabilities, as listed below:

  • OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304)
  • SSL_peek() hang on empty record (CVE-2016-6305)
  • SWEET32 Mitigation (CVE-2016-2183)
  • OOB write in MDC2_Update() (CVE-2016-6303)
  • Malformed SHA512 ticket DoS (CVE-2016-6302)
  • OOB write in BN_bn2dec() (CVE-2016-2182)
  • OOB read in TS_OBJ_print_bio() (CVE-2016-2180)
  • Pointer arithmetic undefined behaviour (CVE-2016-2177)
  • Constant time flag not preserved in DSA signing (CVE-2016-2178)
  • DTLS buffered message DoS (CVE-2016-2179)
  • DTLS replay protection DoS (CVE-2016-2181)
  • Certificate message OOB reads (CVE-2016-6306)
  • Excessive allocation of memory in tls_get_message_header() (CVE-2016-6307)
  • Excessive allocation of memory in dtls1_preprocess_fragment() (CVE-2016-6308)

Affected Products

FortiOS versions 5.4.1, 5.4.0, 5.2.9 and below are impacted by CVEs:

  • 2016-2177
  • 2016-2178
  • 2016-2179
  • 2016-2180
  • 2016-2181
  • 2016-2182
  • 2016-2183
  • 2016-6302
  • 2016-6303
  • 2016-6304
  • 2016-6306


FortiAnalyzer versions 5.4.1, 5.4.0, 5.2.9 and below are impacted by CVEs:

  • 2016-2177
  • 2016-2178
  • 2016-2179
  • 2016-2181
  • 2016-2182
  • 2016-2183
  • 2016-6302
  • 2016-6303
  • 2016-6304
  • 2016-6305
  • 2016-6306
  • 2016-6307
  • 2016-6308


FortSwitch versions 3.5.0 and below are impacted by CVEs:

  • 2016-2177
  • 2016-2179
  • 2016-2180
  • 2016-2181
  • 2016-2182
  • 2016-6302
  • 2016-6303
  • 2016-6304
  • 2016-6305
  • 2016-6306
  • 2016-6307
  • 2016-6308


FortiAP versions 5.4.1 and below are impacted by all CVEs included in the OpenSSL Advisory

Solutions

For FortiOS: Upgrade to firmware version 5.2.10 or 5.4.2 or 5.6.0
For FortiAnalyzer: Upgrade to firmware version 5.2.10 or 5.4.2 or 5.6.0
For FortiSwitch: Upgrade to firmware version 3.5.1
For FortiAP: Upgrade to firmware version 5.4.2