Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM Security Guardium has addressed the following vulnerabilities.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2019-14835
DESCRIPTION: A buffer overflow flaw was found, in versions from 2.6.34 to 5.2.x, in the way Linux kernel's vhost functionality that translates virtqueue buffers to IOVs, logged the buffer descriptors during migration. A privileged guest user able to pass descriptors with invalid length to the host when migration is underway, could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the host.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/167170 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM Security Guardium | 10.6 |
Remediation/Fixes
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Product
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VRMF
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Remediation / First Fix
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| IBM Security Guardium | 10.6 | http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Secur… |
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
07 Jan 2020: Initial Publication
*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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Document Location
Worldwide
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Document Information
Modified date:
07 October 2020
UID
ibm11173364