Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by a kernel vulnerability

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

Remediation/Fixes

Product

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VRMF

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Remediation / First Fix

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IBM Security Guardium| 10.6| http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%20Secur…

Workarounds and Mitigations

None