vulnerability

Alma Linux: CVE-2021-29464: Moderate: exiv2 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-4173)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Apr 30, 2021
Added
May 4, 2022
Modified
Sep 15, 2022

Description

Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. A heap buffer overflow was found in Exiv2 versions v0.27.3 and earlier. The heap overflow is triggered when Exiv2 is used to write metadata into a crafted image file. An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to gain code execution, 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-exiv2alma-upgrade-exiv2-develalma-upgrade-exiv2-docalma-upgrade-exiv2-libs
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