Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by kernel vulnerabilities

Summary

IBM Security Guardium has addressed the following vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2018-16871
**DESCRIPTION:**A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s NFS implementation, all versions 3.x and all versions 4.x up to 4.20. An attacker, who is able to mount an exported NFS filesystem, is able to trigger a null pointer dereference by using an invalid NFS sequence. This can panic the machine and deny access to the NFS server. Any outstanding disk writes to the NFS server will be lost.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/162047 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Product

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VRMF

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Remediation / First Fix

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IBM Security Guardium| 11.0| http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=11.0&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_11.0p12_Bundle_Nov-05-2019&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

Workarounds and Mitigations

None