Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow in GNU C Library (CVE-2022-23218)

Security Bulletin

Summary

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow in GNU C Library (CVE-2022-23218). This is included as part of the base-image used in our Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech service components. Please see below for details on how to remediate this issue.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2022-23218
DESCRIPTION: GNU C Library (aka glibc) is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the svcunix_create function in the sunrpc module. By sending a specially-crafted path argument, a local attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217302 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data	4.0.0 - 4.0.7

Remediation/Fixes

Product(s)	Version(s)	Remediation/Fix/Instructions
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data	4.0.8	The fix in 4.0.8 applies to all versions listed (4.0.0-4.0.7). Version 4.0.8 can be downloaded and installed from: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=installing-cloud-pak-data

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

28 Apr 2022: Initial Publication

*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.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow in GNU C Library (CVE-2022-23218)