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

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

Remediation/Fixes

Update to 1.2.0

Workarounds and Mitigations

None