Secunia Security Advisory - IBM has acknowledged a vulnerability in IBM Director, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.
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TITLE:
IBM Director OpenSSL Potential SSL 2.0 Rollback Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA21827
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/21827/
CRITICAL:
Not critical
IMPACT:
Security Bypass
WHERE:
>From local network
SOFTWARE:
IBM Director 5.x
http://secunia.com/product/6156/
DESCRIPTION:
IBM has acknowledged a vulnerability in IBM Director, which
potentially can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain
security restrictions.
For more information:
SA17151
The vulnerability is due to the use of a vulnerable version of
OpenSSL for the service listening on port 5989.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 5.10 Update 3.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/pc_servers/dir5.10.3_docs_relnotes.pdf
OTHER REFERENCES:
SA17151:
http://secunia.com/advisories/17151/
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