Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium Database Activity Monitor is affected by the Open Source Oracle MySQL Vulnerabilities (CVE-2016-6664)

Summary

Oracle MySQL could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by the improper handling of the creation of error log file by the mysqld_safe script. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain root privileges on the system. IBM Security Guardium Database Activity Monitor has fixed this issue

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-6664**
DESCRIPTION:** Oracle MySQL could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by the improper handling of the creation of error log file by the mysqld_safe script. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain root privileges on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/119181&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Security Guardium Database Activity Monitor V 9, 9.1, 9.5

IBM Security Guardium Database Activity Monitor V10, 10.0.1, 10.1, 10.1.2

Remediation/Fixes

Product

| VRMF| Remediation/First Fix
—|—|—
IBM Security Guardium Database Activity Monitor| 9x| http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%2BSecurity&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=All&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_9.0p6022_SecurityUpdate&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
IBM Security Guardium Database Activity Monitor| 10x| http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%2BSecurity&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=All&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_10.0p6022_SecurityUpdate&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

Workarounds and Mitigations

None