Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a buffer overflow and underflow in GNU C Library (CVE-2021-3999)

Security Bulletin

Summary

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a buffer overflow and underflow in GNU C Library (CVE-2021-3999). 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-2021-3999
DESCRIPTION: GNU glibc is vulnerable to an off-by-one buffer overflow and underflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the getcwd() function. By sending a specially-crafted request, a local authenticated attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 8.4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/217981 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 buffer overflow and underflow in GNU C Library (CVE-2021-3999)