Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to multiple Tensorflow vulnerabilities.

Summary

Multiple Tensorflow vulnerabilitiies have been identified that may affect IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. The vulnerabilities have been addressed. Refer to details for additional information.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-25662
**DESCRIPTION:**TensorFlow is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an integer overflow in EditDistance. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251016 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25671
**DESCRIPTION:**TensorFlow is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds read in ValueMap::Manager::GetValueOrCreatePlaceholder. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251004 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25668
**DESCRIPTION:**TensorFlow could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by a heap-based buffer overflow. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the system or cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 9.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251008 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25675
**DESCRIPTION:**TensorFlow is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a segmentation fault in tf.raw_ops.Bincount when running XLA. By sending a specially-crafted request using the weights parameter, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/250998 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25672
**DESCRIPTION:**TensorFlow is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in tf.raw_ops.LookupTableImportV2. By sending a specially-crafted request using the values parameter, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251002 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25658
**DESCRIPTION:**TensorFlow is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds read in GRUBlockCellGrad. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251019 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25664
**DESCRIPTION:**TensorFlow is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a heap-based buffer overflow in TAvgPoolGrad. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251014 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25676
**DESCRIPTION:**TensorFlow is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in tf.raw_ops.ParallelConcat when running XLA. By sending a specially-crafted request using the shape parameter, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/250996 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25674
**DESCRIPTION:**TensorFlow is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in RandomShuffle when XLA is enabled. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251000 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25669
**DESCRIPTION:**TensorFlow is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a floating point exception in tf.raw_ops.AvgPoolGrad when the stride and window size are not positive. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251007 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25665
**DESCRIPTION:**TensorFlow is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference when SparseSparseMaximum is given invalid sparse tensors as inputs. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251013 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25663
**DESCRIPTION:**TensorFlow is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in the Lookup function when ctx->step_containter() is a NULL pointer. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251015 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25673
**DESCRIPTION:**TensorFlow is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a floating point exception in TensorListSplit when XLA is enabled. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251001 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25660
**DESCRIPTION:**TensorFlow is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a segmentation fault when the summarize parameter in tf.raw_ops.Print is zero. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251017 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25670
**DESCRIPTION:**TensorFlow is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in QuantizedMatMulWithBiasAndDequantize when MKL is enabled. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251005 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25659
**DESCRIPTION:**TensorFlow is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds read when the indices parameter in DynamicStitch does not match the data parameter. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251018 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-25667
**DESCRIPTION:**TensorFlow is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an integer overflow when 2^31 <= num_frames * height * width * channels < 2^32. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/251011 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

For all affected versions, IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading to the latest (v4.7.0 or later releases) release of IBM Watson Assistant for IBM Cloud Pak for Data which maintains backward compatibility with the versions listed above.

Follow instructions for Installing Watson Assistant in Link to Release (v4.7.0 release information)

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.7.x&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None