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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-9143: Moderate: exiv2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-1577)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-9143: Moderate: exiv2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-1577)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
02/25/2019
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in Exiv2 0.27. There is infinite recursion at Exiv2::Image::printTiffStructure in the file image.cpp. This can be triggered by a crafted file. It allows an attacker to cause Denial of Service (Segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact.

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

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