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NTAP-20160928-0001 — September 2016 OpenSSL Vulnerabilities in Multiple NetApp Products
Published 2016-09-28 · Updated 2019-07-24 · Status: Final · Exploitation: Public · Severity: not scored · ONTAP affected: Yes
Official advisory: NTAP-20160928-0001 on security.netapp.com ↗. Affected versions, fixed releases, and workarounds live there — this page is a summary.
Product family: Other NetApp products · ONTAP · Cloud Backup / AltaVault / SteelStore · E-Series / SANtricity · SolidFire / NetApp HCI · OnCommand family · SnapManager / Snap utilities · StorageGRID | ONTAP-relevant
CVEs in this advisory
- CVE-2016-6304 · site index
- CVE-2016-2183 · site index
- CVE-2016-6303 · site index
- CVE-2016-6302 · site index
- CVE-2016-2182 · site index
- CVE-2016-2180 · site index
- CVE-2016-2177 · site index
- CVE-2016-2178 · site index
- CVE-2016-2179 · site index
- CVE-2016-2181 · site index
- CVE-2016-6306 · site index
- CVE-2016-6305 · site index
- CVE-2016-6307 · site index
- CVE-2016-6308 · site index
Impact
Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may lead to out-of-bound writes and reads, heap corruption, man-in-the-middle attacks, memory exhaustion, or arbitrary information disclosure.
Affected products
- Cluster Network Switch (NetApp CN1610)
- Clustered Data ONTAP
- Clustered Data ONTAP Antivirus Connector
- Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode
- Management Network Switch (NetApp CN1601)
- NetApp Cloud Backup (formerly AltaVault)
- NetApp Cloud Backup OST Plug-in (formerly AltaVault OST Plug-in)
- NetApp Host Agent
- NetApp SANtricity SMI-S Provider
- NetApp SMI-S Provider
- NetApp SolidFire & HCI Storage Node (Element Software)
- NetApp Storage Encryption
Official fixes
- ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility — vendor fix ↗
- OnCommand Unified Manager for 7-Mode (core package) — vendor fix ↗
- OnCommand Unified Manager for 7-Mode (core package) — vendor fix ↗
- StorageGRID Webscale NAS Bridge — vendor fix ↗
- Clustered Data ONTAP — vendor fix ↗
- SnapDrive for Unix — vendor fix ↗
- SnapDrive for Windows — vendor fix ↗
- NetApp SMI-S Provider — vendor fix ↗
- NetApp Storage Encryption — vendor fix ↗
- NetApp SANtricity SMI-S Provider — vendor fix ↗
- NetApp Cloud Backup (formerly AltaVault) — vendor fix ↗
- NetApp Cloud Backup (formerly AltaVault) — vendor fix ↗
References
- https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20160922.txt ↗
- https://www.openssl.org/news/openssl-1.0.1-notes.html ↗
- https://www.openssl.org/news/openssl-1.0.2-notes.html ↗
- https://www.openssl.org/news/openssl-1.1.0-notes.html ↗
What to do
- Check the affected products listed above against the official advisory's affected-versions table — that is where the exact ONTAP 9 release, ONTAP tool, or management product versions are named.
- If affected and a fixed release exists, plan the upgrade — see the ONTAP upgrade runbook.
- If exploitation is listed as "active", treat remediation as urgent and review exposure (management LIFs, ONTAP S3, SnapMirror endpoints).
- Harden in parallel: security hardening baseline and ransomware protection on ONTAP.
Related reading
- Common ONTAP problems (FAQ) — plain-language symptoms and fixes
- ONTAP security hardening — baseline lockdown guidance
- Ransomware protection on ONTAP — SnapLock, SnapMirror vaulting, Anomaly Detection
- ONTAP error messages index — EMS/WAFL/NFS/SnapMirror messages
- Every NetApp advisory published in 2016