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Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by a Using Components (microcode_ctl) with Known Vulnerabilities vulnerability

Created by Ofra Shinitzky on
Published URL:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/743373
743373

Security Bulletin


Summary

IBM Security Guardium has addressed the following vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-5715
DESCRIPTION: Intel Haswell Xeon, AMD PRO and ARM Cortex A57 CPUs could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a branch target injection in the CPU speculative branch instruction execution feature. By conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to leak memory contents into a CPU cache and read host kernel memory.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/137054 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

 

 

Affected IBM Security Guardium

Affected Versions
IBM Security Guardium 10.0 - 10.5

 

 

Remediation/Fixes

 

Product
VRMF
Remediation / First Fix
IBM Security Guardium 10.0 - 10.5

Customers can upgrade to version 10.6 by downloading from here:
http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=10.0&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_10.0p600_GPU_Nov-2018-V10.6&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

Or

Customers currently on version 10.5 with patch 10.0p512 installed can upgrade version 10.5 with bundle 10.0p520 from here:
http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=10.0&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_10.0p520_Bundle_Dec-06-2018&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Acknowledgement

IBM X-Force Ethical Hacking Team: Warren Moynihan, Jonathan Fitz-Gerald, John Zuccato, Rodney Ryan, Chris Shepherd, Dmitriy Beryoza

Change History

Dec 11, 2018: Original version published
Dec 19, 2018: Second version published

*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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Internal Use Only

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Document Information

Modified date:
19 December 2018

UID

ibm10743373

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