Question & Answer
Question
Which versions of Guardium appliance are not affected by Zero-Day Flaw (Memory-Leak) found in Linux systems ?
Cause
Zero-Day Flaw found in Linux is a new memory-leak vulnerability that impacts the core linux kernel. An attacker could abuse the flaw to gain root-level privileges on a device and execute arbitrary code or steal any data stored on the device. Please refer to:
http://www.databreachtoday.com/zero-day-flaw-found-in-linux-a-8808
RedHat has provided the following statement in response to CVE-2016-0728:
This issue does not affect the Linux kernels as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. This issue affects the Linux kernels as shipped with Red Hat Entereprise MRG 2 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Future Linux kernel updates for the respective releases will address this issue. Refer to https://access.redhat.com/node/2131021 for further information.
See also: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-0728
Answer
The following versions of Guardium appliances are not affected by CVE-2016-0728 :
| Guardium versions | RHEL versions | Affected ? |
| V8.2 | 5 | No |
| V9.0 | 5 | No |
| V9.1 | 5 | No |
| V9.5 | 5 | No |
| V10.0 | 6 | No |
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Modified date:
16 June 2018
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