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

2024-06-1017:50:06

www.ibm.com

ibm watson discovery

ibm cloud pak for data

libtiff vulnerability

denial of service

heap-based buffer overflow

upgrade

ibm cloud documentation

CVSS3

5.5

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

AI Score

7.5

Confidence

High

EPSS

Percentile

10.3%

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Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-6228
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a heap-based buffer overflow in cpStripToTile() function in tools/tiffcp.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted content, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/272653 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

<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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*