Security Bulletin: IBM Security QRadar Event and Flow Exporter App is vulnerable to using components with known vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-31535, CVE-2020-17541)

Security Bulletin

Summary

IBM Security QRadar Event and Flow Exporter App is vulnerable to using components with known vulnerabilities. IBM has addressed the relevant CVEs.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2021-31535
DESCRIPTION: X.Org libX11 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation by the length of the string parameters. By sending a specially-crafted request, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause emission of extra X protocol requests to the X server, and results in a denial of service condition.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/202043 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)

CVEID: CVE-2020-17541
DESCRIPTION: libjpeg-turbo is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking by the transform component. By persuading a victim to open a specially crafted JPEG file, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system or cause denial of service conditions.
CVSS Base score: 5.3
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/202872 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)	Version(s)
IBM Security QRadar Event and Flow Exporter App	1.0 - 1.0.1

Remediation/Fixes

Update to 1.2.0

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

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Change History

15 Jun 2022: 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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Security Bulletin: IBM Security QRadar Event and Flow Exporter App is vulnerable to using components with known vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-31535, CVE-2020-17541)