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

Summary

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

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-3970
**DESCRIPTION:**libtiff could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow in function TIFFReadRGBATileExt of the file libtiff/tif_getimage.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted TIFF file, an attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 6.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/241668 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

CVEID:CVE-2022-3627
**DESCRIPTION:**LibTIFF is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds write flaw in the _TIFFmemcpy function in libtiff/tif_unix.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted TIFF image file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/239184 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery 4.7.0

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

Workarounds and Mitigations

None