IBM Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is affected by Linux kernel privesc: Dirty COW vulnerability (CVE-2016-5195)

 Linux Kernel could allow a local attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by a race condition when handling the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private read-only memory mappings by the memory subsystem. IBM Security Guardium has provided a fix for this vulnerability

CVE(s): CVE-2016-5195

Affected product(s) and affected version(s):

IBM Security Guardium V8.2

IBM Security Guardium V 9, 9.1, 9.5

IBM Security Guardium V10, 10.0.1, 10.1, 10.1.2

Refer to the following reference URLs for remediation and additional vulnerability details:
Source Bulletin: http://ift.tt/2ifoeUA
X-Force Database: http://ift.tt/2gQ8nw9

from IBM Product Security Incident Response Team http://ift.tt/2ifo8wh