Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium Database Activity Monitor is affected by the Open Source Oracle MySQL Vulnerabilities (CVE-2016-6664)

Security Bulletin

Summary

Oracle MySQL could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by the improper handling of the creation of error log file by the mysqld_safe script. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain root privileges on the system. IBM Security Guardium Database Activity Monitor has fixed this issue

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-6664
DESCRIPTION: Oracle MySQL could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by the improper handling of the creation of error log file by the mysqld_safe script. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain root privileges on the system.
CVSS Base Score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/119181 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Security Guardium Database Activity Monitor V 9, 9.1, 9.5

IBM Security Guardium Database Activity Monitor V10, 10.0.1, 10.1, 10.1.2

Remediation/Fixes

Product	VRMF	Remediation/First Fix
IBM Security Guardium Database Activity Monitor	9x	http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%2BSecurity&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=All&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_9.0p6022_SecurityUpdate&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc
IBM Security Guardium Database Activity Monitor	10x	http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=IBM%2BSecurity&product=ibm/Information+Management/InfoSphere+Guardium&release=All&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=SqlGuard_10.0p6022_SecurityUpdate&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v2 Guide
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Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Change History

12/21/2016

*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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Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium Database Activity Monitor is affected by the Open Source Oracle MySQL Vulnerabilities (CVE-2016-6664)