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Alma Linux: CVE-2018-18915: Moderate: exiv2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-1577)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2018-18915: Moderate: exiv2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-1577)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/03/2018
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

There is an infinite loop in the Exiv2::Image::printIFDStructure function of image.cpp in Exiv2 0.27-RC1. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-exiv2-devel
  • alma-upgrade-exiv2-doc
  • alma-upgrade-gegl
  • alma-upgrade-gnome-color-manager
  • alma-upgrade-libgexiv2
  • alma-upgrade-libgexiv2-devel

References

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