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             AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

                               ESB-2018.3953
  CPU hardware utilizing speculative execution may be vulnerable to cache
       timing side-channel analysis known as Variant 4 or SpectreNG
                         vulnerability affects IBM
                             21 December 2018

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:           IBM Security Guardium
Publisher:         IBM
Operating System:  Linux variants
Impact/Access:     Access Privileged Data -- Existing Account
Resolution:        Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names:         CVE-2018-3639  

Reference:         ASB-2018.0121
                   ESB-2018.3848
                   ESB-2018.3367
                   ESB-2018.3020

Original Bulletin: 
   http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm10731671

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Security Bulletin: a CPU hardware utilizing speculative execution may be
vulnerable to cache timing side-channel analysis known as Variant 4 or
SpectreNG vulnerability affects IBM

Security Bulletin

Document information

More support for: IBM Security Guardium
Component: --
Software version: 10 - 10.5
Operating system(s): Linux
Reference #: 0731671
Modified date: 19 December 2018

Summary

IBM Security Guardium has addressed the following vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-3639
DESCRIPTION: Multiple Intel CPU''s could allow a local attacker to obtain
sensitive information, caused by utilizing sequences of speculative execution
and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prior
memory writes are known. By conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks, an
attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass security restrictions and
gain read access to privileged memory. Note: This vulnerability is the
Speculative Store Bypass (SSB), also known as Variant 4 or "SpectreNG".
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/
143569 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/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       |
+---------------------+---------------+------------------------------------+
|                     |               |http://www.ibm.com/support/         |
|                     |               |fixcentral/swg/quickorder-parent=   |
|                     |               |IBM%20Security&product=ibm/         |
|IBM Security Guardium|10.0 - 10.5    |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

Reference

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
On-line Calculator v3

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 19, 2018: Original 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.

Disclaimer

According to the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), the
Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is an "industry open standard
designed to convey vulnerability severity and help to determine urgency and
priority of response." IBM PROVIDES THE CVSS SCORES ""AS IS"" WITHOUT WARRANTY
OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. CUSTOMERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF
ANY ACTUAL OR POTENTIAL SECURITY VULNERABILITY.

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