Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in ISC BIND affects IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CVE-2021-25215)

Summary

A vulnerability in ISC BIND affects IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CVE-2021-25215). Please see the details below for steps to remediate this issue.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-25215
**DESCRIPTION:**ISC BIND is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an assertion failure while answering queries for DNAME records. By sending a query for DNAME records, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to trigger a failed assertion check and terminate the named process.
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/200960 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

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