Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to denial of service in GNU Binutils [CVE-2022-44840]

Summary

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to denial of service in GNU Binutils, caused by a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in function find_section_in_set in file readelf.c [CVE-2022-44840]. GNU Binutils is used in our Speech Services runtimes. This vulnerabilitiy has been addressed. Please read the details for remediation below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-44840
**DESCRIPTION:**GNU Binutils is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in function find_section_in_set in file readelf.c… By using a specially crafted file, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/264304 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Product(s)|**Version(s)
**|Remediation/Fix/Instructions
—|—|—
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data| 4.8.5| The fix in 4.8.5 applies to all versions listed (4.0.0-4.8.4). Version 4.8.5 can be downloaded and installed from: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None