Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in containerd affects Data Replication on Cloud Pak for Data

Summary

A vulnerability in the containerd package has been addressed.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-23471
**DESCRIPTION:**containerd is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the CRI implementation. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust memory on the host, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.7
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/241615 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Update to the latest product fix pack found here: <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.8.x?topic=new-data-replication&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None