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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2020.0270
Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by a
kernel vulnerability
28 January 2020
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: IBM Security Guardium
Publisher: IBM
Operating System: Linux variants
Impact/Access: Increased Privileges -- Existing Account
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2019-14835
Reference: ESB-2020.0251
ESB-2020.0141
Original Bulletin:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1173364
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IBM Security Guardium is affected by a kernel vulnerability
Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM Security Guardium has addressed the following vulnerabilities.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2019-14835
DESCRIPTION: A buffer overflow flaw was found, in versions from 2.6.34 to
5.2.x, in the way Linux kernel's vhost functionality that translates virtqueue
buffers to IOVs, logged the buffer descriptors during migration. A privileged
guest user able to pass descriptors with invalid length to the host when
migration is underway, could use this flaw to increase their privileges on the
host.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/
167170 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
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|Affected Product(s) |Version(s) |
+---------------------------------------+------------------+
|IBM Security Guardium |10.6 |
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Remediation/Fixes
+------------------------+-----------------+-----------------------------------------+
| Product | VRMF | Remediation / First Fix |
+------------------------+-----------------+-----------------------------------------+
|IBM Security Guardium |10.6 |http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg|
| | |/quickorderparent=IBM%20Secur... |
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Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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