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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-20097: Security patch for exiv2 (ALAS-2019-1339)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-20097: Security patch for exiv2 (ALAS-2019-1339)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/12/2018
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

There is a SEGV in Exiv2::Internal::TiffParserWorker::findPrimaryGroups of tiffimage_int.cpp in Exiv2 0.27-RC3. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-exiv2
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-exiv2-debuginfo
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-exiv2-devel
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-exiv2-doc
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-exiv2-libs

References

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