Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in GNU Tar affects IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CVE-2019-9923)

Summary

A vulnerability in GNU Tar affects IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CVE-2019-9923). Please see the steps below to remediate this issue.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-9923
**DESCRIPTION:**GNU Tar is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL point dereference in the pax_decode_header in sparse.c. By persuading a victim to run a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/158908 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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 version is available here:
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.0?topic=overview-whats-new&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None