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

Summary

IBM Security Guardium has addressed the following vulnerabilities.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2017-5715 DESCRIPTION: Intel Haswell Xeon, AMD PRO and ARM Cortex A57 CPUs could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by a branch target injection in the CPU speculative branch instruction execution feature. By conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to leak memory contents into a CPU cache and read host kernel memory.
CVSS Base Score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/137054&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N)

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