Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by a Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities (procps) vulnerability

Security Bulletin

Summary

IBM Security Guardium has addressed the following vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-1126
DESCRIPTION: procps-ng procps is vulnerable to a buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/143456 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID: CVE-2018-1124
DESCRIPTION: procps-ng procps could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an integer overflow in the file2strvec function in libprocps. By sending a specially-crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges.
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/143454 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected IBM Security Guardium	Affected Versions
IBM Security Guardium	10.0 - 10.5

Remediation/Fixes

Product	VRMF	Remediation / First Fix
IBM Security Guardium	10.0 - 10.5	Customers can upgrade to version 10.6 by downloading from here: http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=10.0&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_10.0p600_GPU_Nov-2018-V10.6&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc Or Customers currently on version 10.5 with patch 10.0p512 installed can upgrade version 10.5 with bundle 10.0p520 from here: http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=10.0&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_10.0p520_Bundle_Dec-06-2018&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

IBM X-Force Ethical Hacking Team: Warren Moynihan, Jonathan Fitz-Gerald, John Zuccato, Rodney Ryan, Chris Shepherd, Dmitriy Beryoza

Change History

Dec 11, 2018: Original version published
Dec 19, 2018: Second version published

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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Internal Use Only

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Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by a Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities (procps) vulnerability