Release Notes
Abstract
This technical note provides guidance for installing IBM Guardium Data Protection sniffer patch 12.0p4009, including any new features or enhancements, resolved or known issues, or notices associated with the patch.
Content
Patch information
- Patch file name: SqlGuard-12.0p4009_Snif_Apr_27_2025.tgz.enc.sig
- MD5 checksum: a37e9a9903c62db57364a8c28c032382
Finding the patch
- Select the following options to download this patch on the IBM Fix Central website and click Continue.
- Product selector: IBM Security Guardium
- Installed Version: 12.0 or 12.1
- Platform: All
- On the "Identify fixes" page, select Browse for fixes and click Continue.
- On the "Select fixes" page, select Appliance Sniffer Patch. Then, enter the patch information in the Filter fix details field to locate the patch.
For information about Guardium patch types and naming conventions, see the Understanding Guardium patch types and patch names support document.
Installation
Notes:
- This universal sniffer patch can be installed on releases of Guardium 12.0 and 12.1.
- This patch restarts the sniffer process.
Overview:
- Download the patch and extract the compressed package outside the Guardium system.
- Be sure to check the latest version of these patch release notes online just before you install this patch.
- Pick a "quiet" or low-traffic time to install the patch on the Guardium system.
- Install patches in a top-down manner on all Guardium systems: start with the central manager, then aggregators, then the collectors. This sniffer patch must be installed across all the appliances such as the central manager, aggregators, and collectors.
For more information, see How to install patches in the Guardium documentation.
New currency items
This patch provides the following new currency items.
| Issue key | Summary |
|---|---|
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GRD-85892
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Support for SingleStoreDB (MemSQL)
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GRD-91599
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Support for DataStax Enterprise 6.9.5
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GRD-91613
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Support for Apache Cassandra 5.0
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GRD-91626
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Support for IBM Informix 15
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GRD-94306
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Support for Neo4j 2025.01.0
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GRD-94720
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Support for Apache CouchDB 3.4.2
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GRD-94723
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Support for CockroachDB 25.1, UNIX only
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GRD-95711
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Support for PostgreSQL and EDB Postgres 17.4
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GRD-95729
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Support for SAP HANA Platform 2.0 support package stack (SPS) 08
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Resolved issues
This patch resolves the following issues.
| Patch | Issue key | Summary | Known issue (APAR) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12.0p4008 |
See release notes for patch 12.0p4008
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| 12.0p4009 |
GRD-96382
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Addressed handling of the compressed traffic from DataStax Studio for Apache Cassandra NoSQL database
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DT437106
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GRD-97520
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In alert messages, %%receiptTime and %%SQLTimestamp are different:
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DT437122
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GRD-94549
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Redis traffic parser errors
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DT426398
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GRD-96786
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MariaDB double-quoted strings not handled as literals
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DT437261
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GRD-97285
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Valid Teradata SQL with "NOT=" operator caused parser error
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DT435869
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GRD-97325,
GRD-97838,
GRD-98288
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Fixed Teradata parser errors
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DT435870,
DT437093,
DT437091
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Bug fixes
This patch provides the following bug fixes.
| Issue key | Summary |
|---|---|
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GRD-91334
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Fixed parser errors for vector database support
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GRD-93301
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Fixed parser errors for Couchbase
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GRD-95419
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SingleStore database name and user name captured for Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) driver
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GRD-95456
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Queries from Python client to redis-stack captured for vector database
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GRD-95618
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Fixed Teradata parser errors
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GRD-96119
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Capture of some statements for Neo4j using cypher-shell connection
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GRD-97314
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Fixed Oracle Unified Auditing parser errors
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GRD-97855
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Fix Microsoft SQL Server parser errors
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Modified date:
29 May 2025
UID
ibm17234619