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

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-17546
**DESCRIPTION:**libtiff is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow, caused by an integer overflow in the tif_getimage.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/168952 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 2.2.1 and apply 2.2.1 patch-1

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

<https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/available-patches-watson-discovery-ibm-cloud-pak-data&gt;

Workarounds and Mitigations

None