Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in tar package affects Data Replication on Cloud Pak for Data

Summary

A vulnerability in tar package used in Data Replication on Cloud Pak for Data was addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-48303
**DESCRIPTION:**GNU Tar is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by an out-of-bounds read in the from_header() function in list.c when processing of V7 archive files. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted V7 file using whitespace characters in the mtime parameter, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code in the context of the current process.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/245770 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Update to the latest product fix pack found here: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.7.x?topic=new-data-replication&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None