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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-29463: Moderate: exiv2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-4173)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-29463: Moderate: exiv2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-4173)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/30/2021
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. An out-of-bounds read was found in Exiv2 versions v0.27.3 and earlier. The out-of-bounds read is triggered when Exiv2 is used to write metadata into a crafted image file. An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service by crashing Exiv2, if they can trick the victim into running Exiv2 on a crafted image file. Note that this bug is only triggered when writing the metadata, which is a less frequently used Exiv2 operation than reading the metadata. For example, to trigger the bug in the Exiv2 command-line application, you need to add an extra command-line argument such as `insert`. The bug is fixed in version v0.27.4.

Solution(s)

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

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