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Alma Linux: CVE-2018-9305: Moderate: exiv2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-1577)

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)

Published

Apr 4, 2018

Added

May 4, 2022

Modified

Apr 17, 2026

Description

In Exiv2 0.26, an out-of-bounds read in IptcData::printStructure in iptc.c could result in a crash or information leak, related to the "== 0x1c" case.

Solutions

alma-upgrade-exiv2-develalma-upgrade-exiv2-docalma-upgrade-geglalma-upgrade-gnome-color-manageralma-upgrade-libgexiv2alma-upgrade-libgexiv2-devel

References

CVE-2018-9305
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2018-9305
CWE-125
EUVD-EUVD-2018-20899
https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2020-1577.html
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2018-20899

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