IBM Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL affect IBM Workload Scheduler (CVE-2016-2108, CVE-2016-2107, CVE-2016-2105, CVE-2016-2106, CVE-2016-2109, CVE-2016-2176)

OpenSSL vulnerabilities were disclosed on May 3, 2016 by the OpenSSL Project. OpenSSL is used by IBM Workload Manager. IBM Workload Manager has addressed the applicable CVEs

CVE(s): CVE-2016-2108, CVE-2016-2107, CVE-2016-2105, CVE-2016-2106, CVE-2016-2109, CVE-2016-2176

Affected product(s) and affected version(s):

TWS uses OpenSSL only for secure communication between internal processes.
For Tivoli Workload Scheduler Distributed, TWS nodes are impacted by OpenSSL security exposures only if the TWS workstation has been defined with “securitylevel” set to on or enabled or force.

These security exposures do not apply to the embedded WebSphere Application Server but only to programs installed under <TWS home>/bin.

Tivoli Workload Scheduler Distributed 8.5.0 FP05 and earlier
Tivoli Workload Scheduler Distributed 8.5.1 FP05 and earlier
Tivoli Workload Scheduler Distributed 8.6.0 FP03 and earlier
Tivoli Workload Scheduler Distributed 9.1.0 FP02 and earlier
Tivoli Workload Scheduler Distributed 9.2.0 FP02 and earlier
IBM Workload Scheduler Distributed 9.3.0 FP02 and earlier

Refer to the following reference URLs for remediation and additional vulnerability details:
Source Bulletin: http://ift.tt/29jSlZv
X-Force Database: http://ift.tt/1VjTr9i
X-Force Database: http://ift.tt/1NwOQz5
X-Force Database: http://ift.tt/1NwOPLs
X-Force Database: http://ift.tt/25myFMu
X-Force Database: http://ift.tt/1Z0wO8Z
X-Force Database: http://ift.tt/25mym4p

from IBM Product Security Incident Response Team http://ift.tt/29L1rgq