Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a denial of service in Golang Go (CVE-2022-2879)

Summary

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a denial of service in Golang Go, due to the failure to set a limit on the maximum size of file headers by Reader (CVE-2022-2879). The Golang Go component is included as part of the operators used by Watson Speech Services. Please read the details for remediation below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-2879
**DESCRIPTION:**Golang Go is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to set a limit on the maximum size of file headers by Reader.Read. By using a specially crafted archive, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to exhaust all available memory resources.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/240560 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)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by upgrading.

Product(s)|**Version(s)
**|Remediation/Fix/Instructions
—|—|—
IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data| 4.6.2|**The fix in 4.6.2 applies to all versions listed (4.0.0-4.6.1). Version 4.6.2 can be downloaded and installed from:
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.6.x&gt;
**

Workarounds and Mitigations

None