Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in ISC BIND affects IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CVE-2021-25219)

Summary

A vulnerability in ISC BIND affects IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CVE-2021-25219). Please see the details below on how to remediate this issue.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-25219
**DESCRIPTION:**ISC BIND is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in response processing. By abusing a lame cache, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a named resolver to spend most of its CPU time on managing and checking the lame cache and severely degrade resolver performance.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/212375 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Please update to version 4.0.8 of IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data. This update is available here:

<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=overview-whats-new&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None