Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in GNU Tar (CVE-2022-48303)

Summary

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow in GNU Tar, caused by an out-of-bounds read in the from_header() function in list.c when processing of V7 archive files (CVE-2022-48303). GNU Tar is included as part of the operators used by our service components. This vulnerabilitiy has been addressed. Please read the details for remediation below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-48303
**DESCRIPTION:**GNU Tar is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by an out-of-bounds read in the from_header() function in list.c when processing of V7 archive files. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted V7 file using whitespace characters in the mtime parameter, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code in the context of the current process.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/245770 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly 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| 4.6.5| The fix in 4.6.5 applies to all versions listed (4.0.0-4.6.4). Version 4.6.5 can be downloaded and installed from: **
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.6.x?topic=installing&gt;
**

Workarounds and Mitigations

None