Medium severity5.1NVD Advisory· Published Oct 8, 2026· Updated Oct 8, 2026
CVE-2026-84290
CVE-2026-84290
Description
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.
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Affected products
1- Range: 12.0, 12.1, 12.2
Patches
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