Security Bulletin: IBM has announced a release for IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence in response to security vulnerability (CVE-2019-3815)

Security Bulletin

Summary

IBM has announced a release for IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence (IGI) in response to security vulnerability. The systemd packages contain systemd, a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with the SysV and LSB init scripts. A memory leak was discovered in the backport of fixes for CVE-2018-16864 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Function dispatch_message_real() in journald-server.c does not free the memory allocated by set_iovec_field_free() to store the `_CMDLINE=` entry. A local attacker may use this flaw to make systemd-journald crash.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2019-3815
DESCRIPTION: A memory leak was discovered in the backport of fixes for CVE-2018-16864 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Function dispatch_message_real() in journald-server.c does not free the memory allocated by set_iovec_field_free() to store the `_CMDLINE=` entry. A local attacker may use this flaw to make systemd-journald crash. This issue only affects versions shipped with Red Hat Enterprise since v219-62.2.
CVSS Base score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/156227 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence	5.2.4
IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence	5.2.5

Remediation/Fixes

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)	First Fix
IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence	5.2.4	5.2.6.0-ISS-SIGI-FP0000
IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence	5.2.5	5.2.6.0-ISS-SIGI-FP0000

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

none

Change History

04 Dec 2019: Initial Publication

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Security Bulletin: IBM has announced a release for IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence in response to security vulnerability (CVE-2019-3815)