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Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in FFMpeg shipped with IBM Watson Machine Learning Community Edition (WMLCE) containers

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Summary

The following CVEs have been resolved as part of this security update. This only affects container images since this package is not published as part of the WMLCE Conda channel.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2019-15942
DESCRIPTION:   FFmpeg is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw in the in h2645_parse because alloc_rbsp_buffer in libavcodec/h2645_parse.c. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 3.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/166687 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 WML Community Edition1.6.2
IBM WML Community Edition1.7.0

Remediation/Fixes

Container images there were affected have been republished using the same tags. Pulling the image again from its upstream container registry (https://hub.docker.com/r/ibmcom/powerai, https://catalog.redhat.com) will download an updated image with the CVEs resolved.

For information regarding WMLCE see https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS5SF7 .

 

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Acknowledgement

Change History

04 May 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.

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
19 May 2020

Initial Publish date:
04 May 2020

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ibm16211953