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

Summary

IBM Security Guardium has addressed the following vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-1000156 DESCRIPTION: GNU Patch could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an input validation error when processing patch files. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a patch file processed via the patch utility to execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/141283&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

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

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None