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CVE-2026-84290

5.1 medium SSVC exploitation: none Analyzed

IBM Guardium Data Protection 12.0, 12.1, 12.2 is affected by an improper validation of user-supplied pointers in the WfpMonitor kernel driver. Certain METHOD_NEITHER IOCTL handlers dereference user-controlled pointers without adequate probing and exception handling, potentially allowing a privileged local attacker to cause a system crash or perform limited kernel-memory reads.

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 5.1 · ibmNVD modified 2026-10-13 19:52

Affected (CPE criteria) 1

  • cpe:2.3:a:ibm:guardium_data_protection:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 1