SB2023040312 - Resource exhaustion in IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data



SB2023040312 - Resource exhaustion in IBM Watson Speech Services Cartridge for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

Published: April 3, 2023

Security Bulletin ID SB2023040312
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-32206)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insecure processing of compressed HTTP responses. A malicious server can send a specially crafted HTTP response to curl and perform a denial of service attack by forcing curl to spend enormous amounts of allocated heap memory, or trying to and returning out of memory errors.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.