IBM Support

Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in Pillow shipped with PowerAI.

Security Bulletin


Summary

Vulnerability CVE-2019-16865 was found in a Pillow package

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2019-16865
DESCRIPTION:   An issue was discovered in Pillow versions before 6.2.0. When reading specially crafted invalid image files, the library can either allocate very large amounts of memory or take an extremely long period of time to process the image.
CVSS Base score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/168592 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s) Version(s)
IBM PowerAI 1.5.4

Remediation/Fixes

Container images with iFix for the above vulnerability shipped with PowerAI 1.5.4 is published at

https://hub.docker.com/r/ibmcom/powerai

Execute the following commands from the system in which the docker is installed:

docker pull ibmcom/powerai:<tag>
docker run -ti --env LICENSE=yes ibmcom/powerai:<tag> bash

Where <tag> is a 1.5.4 specific tag. Available image tags can be found at:
https://hub.docker.com/r/ibmcom/powerai/tags

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

Get Notified about Future Security Bulletins

References

Off

Change History

10 Jan 2020: Initial Publication

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

Disclaimer

Review the IBM security bulletin disclaimer and definitions regarding your responsibilities for assessing potential impact of security vulnerabilities to your environment.

Document Location

Worldwide

[{"Business Unit":{"code":"BU053","label":"Cloud & Data Platform"},"Product":{"code":"SGLMYS","label":"IBM PowerAI"},"Component":" Pillow","Platform":[{"code":"PF031","label":"Ubuntu"}],"Version":"1.5.4","Edition":"ALL","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB10","label":"Data and AI"}}]

Document Information

Modified date:
10 January 2020

Initial Publish date:
10 January 2020

UID

ibm11171066