Security Bulletin
Summary
A vulnerability in GNU Tar affects IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CVE-2019-9923). Please see the steps below to remediate this issue.
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2019-9923
DESCRIPTION: GNU Tar is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL point dereference in the pax_decode_header in sparse.c. By persuading a victim to run a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/158908 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
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
Please update to version 4.0.8 of IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. This version is available here:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=overview-whats-new
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Change History
25 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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Document Information
Modified date:
12 January 2023
UID
ibm16575509