Security Bulletin: IBM Security Guardium is using components with known vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-24614, CVE-2022-24613, CVE-2022-14262)

Summary

IBM Security Guardium has addressed these vulnerabilities in an update.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:CVE-2022-24614
**DESCRIPTION:**metadata-extractor is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-memory flaw when handling very small inputs. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted JPEG file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/220451 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2022-24613
**DESCRIPTION:**metadata-extractor is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper input validation. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted JPEG file, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/220450 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

CVEID:CVE-2019-14262
**DESCRIPTION:**MetadataExtractor is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow, caused by improper bounds checking. By persuading a victim to open a specially-crafted file, a remote attacker could overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Base score: 7.8
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/165392 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Affected Products and Versions

Remediation/Fixes

IBM encourages customers to update their systems promptly.

Workarounds and Mitigations

None