Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in LibTIFF

2024-08-2919:16:01

www.ibm.com

ibm watson discovery

ibm cloud pak

libtiff

denial of service

upgrade

version 4.8.6

version 5.0.0

CVSS3

6.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

AI Score

Confidence

High

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Summary

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data affected by vulnerability in LibTIFF

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-3618
**DESCRIPTION:**libtiff is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a segmentation fault in the Fax3Encode function at libtiff/tif_fax3.c when parsing TIFF files. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted TIFF file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/260568 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
ICP - Discovery	4.0.0-4.8.5

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.8.6 or 5.0.0

<https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-install>

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

ibmwatson_discoveryMatch4.0.0

ibmwatson_discoveryMatch4.8.5

VendorProductVersionCPE
ibmwatson_discovery4.0.0cpe:2.3:a:ibm:watson_discovery:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibmwatson_discovery4.8.5cpe:2.3:a:ibm:watson_discovery:4.8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*