Security Bulletin: a CPU hardware utilizing speculative execution may be vulnerable to cache timing side-channel analysis known as Variant 4 or SpectreNG vulnerability affects IBM

Summary

IBM Security Guardium has addressed the following vulnerability.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-3639 DESCRIPTION: Multiple Intel CPU’'s could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by utilizing sequences of speculative execution and speculative execution of memory reads before the addresses of all prior memory writes are known. By conducting targeted cache side-channel attacks, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass security restrictions and gain read access to privileged memory. Note: This vulnerability is the Speculative Store Bypass (SSB), also known as Variant 4 or “SpectreNG”.
CVSS Base Score: 4.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/143569&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/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 | 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