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Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in glibc impacts IBM Watson™ Speech Services

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Summary

A vulnerability in glibc, affecting IBM Watson™ Speech Services, has the potential to result in a denial of service.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2020-27618
DESCRIPTION:   GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error when processing some invalid inputs from several IBM character sets in the iconv function. By sending invalid multi-byte input sequences in IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, IBM1399 encodings, a local authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to enter into an infinite loop.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/196446 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Watson™ Speech Services1.0.1 - 1.2.1

Remediation/Fixes

Download and install the newest deployment of IBM Watson™ Speech Services 4.0 to your ICP cluster.  This deployment contains a base OS upgrade, containing the fix for this issue.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

04 Aug 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:
09 August 2021

Initial Publish date:
04 August 2021

UID

ibm16479657