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

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Summary

IBM Security Guardium has fixed this vulnerability

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2019-3882
DESCRIPTION:   Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to restrict violation of the user's locked memory limit by the vfio interface implementation. If a device is bound to a vfio driver, a local authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability using vfio DMA mappings to exhaust all available memory resources.
CVSS Base score: 4.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/158984 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Security Guardium11.1

Remediation/Fixes

 ProductVersions Fix
IBM Security Guardium11.1

 

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

03 Apr 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

ibm16152457