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             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

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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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

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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

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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. Customers can evaluate the impact
of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the
Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

Disclaimer

According to the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), the
Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) is an "industry open standard
designed to convey vulnerability severity and help to determine urgency and
priority of response." IBM PROVIDES THE CVSS SCORES "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY
OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. CUSTOMERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ASSESSING THE IMPACT
OF ANY ACTUAL OR POTENTIAL SECURITY VULNERABILITY.

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