Security Bulletin
Summary
TensorFlow is vulnerable to a denial of service and segmentation fault on IBM Watson Machine Learning on CP4D
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2020-5215
DESCRIPTION: Tensorflow is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a flaw when converting a string (from Python) to a tf.float16 value. By sending a specially-crafted string, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a segmentation fault.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/175440 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| IBM Watson Machine Learning on CP4D | 2.5 |
Remediation/Fixes
Fix is available on IBM Watson Machine Learning on CP4D 3.0 and CPD 3.5
Patches are available here : https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/5693732
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Change History
21 Apr 2021: 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:
03 May 2021
Initial Publish date:
21 April 2021
UID
ibm16449290