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

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2023-30774
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a heap-based buffer overflow related to TIFFTAG_INKNAMES and TIFFTAG_NUMBEROFINKS value. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/253190 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)

CVEID:CVE-2023-3316
**DESCRIPTION:**Libtiff is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in TIFFClose(). 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: 5.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258398 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-3570
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by multiple heap-based buffer overflows in tiffcrop.c utility. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted TIFF image file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.1
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/239178 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-30086
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a heap-based buffer overflow in the tiffcp function in tiffcp.c. A local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255416 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2023-26966
**DESCRIPTION:**Libtiff is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a buffer overflow in uv_encode(). 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: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/259560 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)

CVEID:CVE-2023-2908
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference flaw in tif_dir.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted TIFF image file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/259556 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)

CVEID:CVE-2023-30775
**DESCRIPTION:**libtiff is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a heap-based buffer overflow in extractContigSamples32bits in tiffcrop.c. By using a specially crafted file, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.
CVSS Base score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/255836 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-3598
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds write flaw in the extractContigSamplesShifted24bits function in tools/tiffcrop.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted TIFF image file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/239181 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)

CVEID:CVE-2022-3599
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds read flaw in the writeSingleSection function in tools/tiffcrop.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted TIFF image file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/239182 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)

CVEID:CVE-2023-3576
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory leak in tiffcrop.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted TIFF image file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/261300 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)

CVEID:CVE-2023-26965
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a heap-based buffer overflow in the loadImage() function in /libtiff/tools/tiffcrop.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/258196 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 4.8.3

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None