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Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by a kernel vulnerability

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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 Guardium10.6

Remediation/Fixes

Product
VRMF
Remediation / First Fix
IBM Security Guardium10.6http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Secur…

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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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