Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a security restrictions bypass in GNU C Library (CVE-2019-19126)

Summary

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data is vulnerable to a security restrictions bypass in GNU C Library, caused by failing to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable during program execution. (CVE-2019-19126). GNU C Library is used as part of the base image included in our service components. Please read the details for remediation below.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2019-19126
**DESCRIPTION:**GNU C Library could allow a local attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by failing to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable during program execution. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to bypass ASLR for a setuid program.
CVSS Base score: 4
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/172003 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)

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|4.5.3|**The fix in 4.5.3 applies to all versions listed (4.0.0-4.5.2). Version 4.5.3 can be downloaded and installed from:
<https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/4.5.x?topic=installing&gt;
**

Workarounds and Mitigations

None