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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-17402: Low: exiv2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-1758)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-17402: Low: exiv2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-1758)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/09/2019
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

Exiv2 0.27.2 allows attackers to trigger a crash in Exiv2::getULong in types.cpp when called from Exiv2::Internal::CiffDirectory::readDirectory in crwimage_int.cpp, because there is no validation of the relationship of the total size to the offset and size.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-exiv2-devel
  • alma-upgrade-exiv2-doc

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