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

Summary

IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data contains a vulnerable version of LibTIFF.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-1355
**DESCRIPTION:**libtiff is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the tiffcp.c in main() function in the tiffcp tool. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted TIFF file, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and corrupt memory or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 6.6
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/229316 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2056
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a divide-by-zero error in tiffcrop. 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/230254 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)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2057
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a divide-by-zero error in tiffcrop. 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/230253 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)

CVEID:CVE-2022-2058
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a divide-by-zero error in tiffcrop. 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/230252 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

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.6.3

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None