Security Bulletin: IBM has announced a release for IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence in response to security vulnerability (CVE-2018-5407)

Summary

IBM has announced a release for IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence (IGI) in response to security vulnerability. Multiple SMT/Hyper-Threading architectures and processors could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information. This vulnerability is known as PortSmash.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2018-5407 DESCRIPTION: Multiple SMT/Hyper-Threading architectures and processors could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by execution engine sharing on Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) architecture. By using the PortSmash new side-channel attack, an attacker could run a malicious process next to legitimate processes using the architectures parallel thread running capabilities to leak encrypted data from the CPU’s internal processes. Note: This vulnerability is known as PortSmash.
CVSS Base Score: 5.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See <https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/152484&gt; for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence (IGI) 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 5.2.2.1, 5.2.3, 5.2.3.1, 5.2.3.2, 5.2.4, 5.2.4.1, 5.2.5.0;

Remediation/Fixes

Product Name

| VRMF | First Fix
—|—|—
IGI | 5.2 | 5.2.5.0-ISS-SIGI-FP0001
IGI | 5.2.1 | 5.2.5.0-ISS-SIGI-FP0001
IGI | 5.2.2 | 5.2.5.0-ISS-SIGI-FP0001
IGI | 5.2.2.1 | 5.2.5.0-ISS-SIGI-FP0001
IGI | 5.2.3 | 5.2.5.0-ISS-SIGI-FP0001
IGI | 5.2.3.1 | 5.2.5.0-ISS-SIGI-FP0001
IGI | 5.2.3.2 | 5.2.5.0-ISS-SIGI-FP0001
IGI | 5.2.4 | 5.2.5.0-ISS-SIGI-FP0001
IGI | 5.2.4.1 | 5.2.5.0-ISS-SIGI-FP0001
IGI | 5.2.5.0 | 5.2.5.0-ISS-SIGI-FP0001

Workarounds and Mitigations

None