Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by a Foreshadow Spectre Variant vulnerability

Summary

IBM Security Guardium has addressed the following vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-3646 DESCRIPTION: Multiple Intel CPU’'s could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in the CPU speculative branch instruction execution feature. By conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks and via a terminal page fault, an attacker with guest OS privilege could exploit this vulnerability to leak information residing in the L1 data cache and read data belonging to different security contexts.
CVSS Base Score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/148319&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N)

CVEID: CVE-2018-3620 DESCRIPTION: Multiple Intel CPU’'s could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a flaw in the CPU speculative branch instruction execution feature. By conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks and via a terminal page fault, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to leak information residing in the L1 data cache and read data belonging to different security contexts. Note: This vulnerability is also known as the “L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF)” or “Foreshadow” attack.
CVSS Base Score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/148318&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected IBM Security Guardium

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Affected Versions

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IBM Security Guardium | 10.0 - 10.5
IBM Security Guardium | 9.0 - 9.5

Remediation/Fixes

Product

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VRMF

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Remediation / First Fix

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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 Security&amp;product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&amp;release=10.0&amp;platform=All&amp;function=fixId&amp;fixids=SqlGuard_10.0p600_GPU_Nov-2018-V10.6&amp;includeSupersedes=0&amp;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 Security&amp;product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&amp;release=10.0&amp;platform=All&amp;function=fixId&amp;fixids=SqlGuard_10.0p520_Bundle_Dec-06-2018&amp;includeSupersedes=0&amp;source=fc

IBM Security Guardium | 9.0 - 9.5 | http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM Security&amp;product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&amp;release=9.0&amp;platform=All&amp;function=fixId&amp;fixids=SqlGuard_9.0p775_CombinedFixPackForGPU750_64-bit&amp;includeSupersedes=0&amp;source=fc

Workarounds and Mitigations

None