Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to multiple Freedesktop D-Bus denial of service vulnerability

Summary

Potential Freedesktop D-Buss denial of service vulnerabilities has been identified that may affect IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. Refer to details for additional information.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-42010
**DESCRIPTION:**Freedesktop D-Bus is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an assertion failure. By sending a specially-crafted message using invalid type signature with incorrectly nested parentheses and curly brackets, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a crash or incorrect message processing, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237924 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-42011
**DESCRIPTION:**Freedesktop D-Bus is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an assertion failure. By sending a specially-crafted message using invalid array of fixed-length elements, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a crash or incorrect message processing, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237925 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-42012
**DESCRIPTION:**Freedesktop D-Bus is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a use-after-free and memory corruption flaw. By sending a specially-crafted message with out-of-band Unix file descriptors, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a crash or incorrect message processing, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/237926 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

For all affected versions, IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to the latest (v4.7.0 or later releases) release of IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data which maintains backward compatibility with the versions listed above.

Follow instructions for Installing Watson Assistant in Link to Release (v4.7.0 release information)

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.7.x&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None