Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in FFMpeg shipped with IBM Watson Machine Learning Community Edition (WMLCE) containers

Summary

The following CVEs have been resolved as part of this security update. This only affects container images since this package is not published as part of the WMLCE Conda channel.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-15942
**DESCRIPTION:**FFmpeg is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the in h2645_parse because alloc_rbsp_buffer in libavcodec/h2645_parse.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/166687 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Container images there were affected have been republished using the same tags. Pulling the image again from its upstream container registry (<https://hub.docker.com/r/ibmcom/powerai&gt;, <https://catalog.redhat.com>) will download an updated image with the CVEs resolved.

For information regarding WMLCE see <https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS5SF7&gt; .

Workarounds and Mitigations

None