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

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2020-19131
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a heap-based buffer overflow in the invertImage() function. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted 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/208953 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 4.5.0

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None