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

Summary

IBM Security Guardium has addressed the following vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-14898
**DESCRIPTION:**Linux Kernel is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a race condition in between mmget_not_zero()/get_task_mm() and core dumping. By using a specially-crafted system call, a local authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the system to crash or obtain sensitive information.
CVSS Base score: 6.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/175727 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/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 Security&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=11.0&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_11.0p30_Bundle_Aug-25-2020&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
IBM Security Guardium | 11.1 | | |

Workarounds and Mitigations

None