Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in Perl (CVE-2018-6913).

Summary

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in Perl, caused by improper bounds checking by S_pack_rec (CVE-2018-6913). This could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the system to crash. Perl is included in some of the operators used in IBM Watson Speech. Please read the details for remediation below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2018-6913
**DESCRIPTION:**Perl is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by S_pack_rec. By using a specially crafted pack() function call a local attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the system to crash.
CVSS Base score: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/141685 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading.

Product(s)| Version(s)
| Remediation/Fix/Instructions
—|—|—
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data| 4.5.1| The fix in 4.5.1 applies to all versions listed (4.0.0-4.5.0). Version 4.5.1 can be downloaded and installed from:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.5.x?topic=installing

Workarounds and Mitigations

None