Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Pak for Data System 2.0 is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution due to Samba (CVE-2021-44142)

Summary

Samba is used by IBM Cloud Pak for Data System 2.0 . This bulletin provides a remediation for the Samba vulnerability (CVE-2021-44142).

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2021-44142
**DESCRIPTION:**Samba could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an out-of-bounds heap read write in the VFS module vfs_fruit. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code as root on the system.
CVSS Base score: 9.9
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/218420 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by applying below patch.

IBM Cloud Pak for Data System 2.0

| 2.0.0.0.polkit_samba_package-WS-ICPDS-fp149| Link to Fix Central

• Please follow the steps given in release notes to apply above remediation.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None