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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2016.1488 Security Bulletin: InstallShield and InstallAnywhere vulnerabilities affect IBM Security Guardium Data Redaction (CVE-2016-2542) 14 June 2016 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: IBM Security Guardium Data Redaction Publisher: IBM Operating System: AIX HP-UX Linux variants Solaris z/OS Impact/Access: Increased Privileges -- Existing Account Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2016-2542 Reference: ESB-2016.0805 Original Bulletin: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21984520 - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- Security Bulletin: InstallShield and InstallAnywhere vulnerabilities affect IBM Security Guardium Data Redaction (CVE-2016-2542) Security Bulletin Document information More support for: IBM Security Guardium Guardium Data Redaction Software version: 2.5 Operating system(s): AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, z/OS Reference #: 1984520 Modified date: 2016-06-13 Summary Flexera InstallShield could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an untrusted search path. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory of a setup-launcher executable file to gain elevated privileges on the system. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2016-2542 DESCRIPTION: Flexera InstallShield could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by an untrusted search path. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory of a setup-launcher executable file to gain elevated privileges on the system. CVSS Base Score: 7.8 CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/110914 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 2.5.1 Remediation/Fixes Product VRMF Remediation/First Fix IBM Security Guardium Data Redaction 2.5.1 https://www-01.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage/pao_customer.html Workarounds and Mitigations None Get Notified about Future Security Bulletins Subscribe to My Notifications to be notified of important product support alerts like this. References Complete CVSS v3 Guide On-line Calculator v3 Related information IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog Change History Updated "workaround" section *The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. 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