Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution in Libksba ( CVE-2022-47629 )

Summary

IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution in Libksba, caused by an integer overflow in the CRL signature parser ( CVE-2022-47629 ). Libksba 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-2022-47629
**DESCRIPTION:**Libksba could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow in the CRL signature parser. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/242850 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

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