Security Bulletin
Summary
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been addressed in Containerized version of IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2026-6732
DESCRIPTION: A flaw was found in libxml2. This vulnerability occurs when the library processes a specially crafted XML Schema Definition (XSD) validated document that includes an internal entity reference. An attacker could exploit this by providing a malicious document, leading to a type confusion error that causes the application to crash. This results in a denial of service (DoS), making the affected system or application unavailable.
CWE: CWE-843: Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')
CVSS Source: NVD
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2026-28388
DESCRIPTION: Issue summary: When a delta CRL that contains a Delta CRL Indicator extension is processed a NULL pointer dereference might happen if the required CRL Number extension is missing. Impact summary: A NULL pointer dereference can trigger a crash which leads to a Denial of Service for an application. When CRL processing and delta CRL processing is enabled during X.509 certificate verification, the delta CRL processing does not check whether the CRL Number extension is NULL before dereferencing it. When a malformed delta CRL file is being processed, this parameter can be NULL, causing a NULL pointer dereference. Exploiting this issue requires the X509_V_FLAG_USE_DELTAS flag to be enabled in the verification context, the certificate being verified to contain a freshestCRL extension or the base CRL to have the EXFLAG_FRESHEST flag set, and an attacker to provide a malformed CRL to an application that processes it. The vulnerability is limited to Denial of Service and cannot be escalated to achieve code execution or memory disclosure. For that reason the issue was assessed as Low severity according to our Security Policy. The FIPS modules in 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue, as the affected code is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.
CWE: CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference
CVSS Source: NVD
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2026-5435
DESCRIPTION: The deprecated functions ns_printrrf, ns_printrr and fp_nquery in the GNU C Library version 2.2 and newer fail to enforce the caller-supplied buffer length, and can result in an out-of-bounds write when printing TSIG records.
CWE: CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write
CVSS Source: CISA ADP
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)
CVEID: CVE-2026-5928
DESCRIPTION: Calling the ungetwc function on a FILE stream with wide characters encoded in a character set that has overlaps between its single byte and multi-byte character encodings, in the GNU C Library version 2.43 or earlier, may result in an attempt to read bytes before an allocated buffer, potentially resulting in unintentional disclosure of neighboring data in the heap, or a program crash. A bug in the wide character pushback implementation (_IO_wdefault_pbackfail in libio/wgenops.c) causes ungetwc() to operate on the regular character buffer (fp-_IO_read_ptr) instead of the actual wide-stream read pointer (fp-_wide_data-_IO_read_ptr). The program crash may happen in cases where fp-_IO_read_ptr is not initialized and hence points to NULL. The buffer under-read requires a special situation where the input character encoding is such that there are overlaps between single byte representations and multibyte representations in that encoding, resulting in spurious matches. The spurious match case is not possible in the standard Unicode character sets.
CWE: CWE-127: Buffer Under-read
CVSS Source: CISA ADP
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager | 4.1 |
| IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager | 4.1.1 |
| IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager | 4.2 |
| IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager | 4.2.1 |
| IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager | 5.0 |
| IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager | 5.1 |
Note: Only the containerized version of IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager is affected
Remediation/Fixes
IBM encourages customers to update their systems promptly.
| Principal Product and Version(s) | Remediation/Fixes |
| IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager (GKLM) v4.1 | 1. Download IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager (GKLM) v5.1 (the product is available for download through IBM Passport Advantage) 2. Apply 5.1.0-ISS-GKLM-FP0003 |
| IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager (GKLM) v4.1.1 | |
| IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager (GKLM) v4.2 | |
| IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager (GKLM) v4.2.1 | |
| IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager (GKLM) v5.0 | |
| IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager (GKLM) v5.1 | Apply 5.1.0-ISS-GKLM-FP0003 |
Download instruction: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/gklm/5.x?topic=software-download-instructions
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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Modified date:
12 October 2026
UID
ibm17292029