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Ubuntu: USN-4941-1 (CVE-2021-29457): Exiv2 vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4941-1 (CVE-2021-29457): Exiv2 vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/19/2021
Created
05/13/2021
Added
05/11/2021
Modified
03/22/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libexiv2-14
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libexiv2-27

References

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