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openSUSE Leap 15.0 Advisory: 2018:3306-1 Moderate Exiv2 Memory Corruption

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Calendar Grey October 23, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
A security patch for openSUSE fixes several moderate vulnerabilities in libexif, tackling buffer overflows and potential memory leaks.
An update that fixes two vulnerabilities is now available.

Description

This update for exiv2 fixes the following issues:

exiv2 was updated to latest 0.26 branch, fixing bugs and security issues:

- CVE-2018-12264, CVE-2018-12265: Integer overflows in the LoaderExifJpeg

class could lead to memory corruption (bsc#1097599)

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.0:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-1224=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (i586 x86_64):

exiv2-0.26-lp150.5.6.1

exiv2-debuginfo-0.26-lp150.5.6.1

exiv2-debugsource-0.26-lp150.5.6.1

libexiv2-26-0.26-lp150.5.6.1

libexiv2-26-debuginfo-0.26-lp150.5.6.1

libexiv2-devel-0.26-lp150.5.6.1

libexiv2-doc-0.26-lp150.5.6.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (x86_64):

libexiv2-26-32bit-0.26-lp150.5.6.1

libexiv2-26-32bit-debuginfo-0.26-lp150.5.6.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.0 (noarch):

exiv2-lang-0.26-lp150.5.6.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12264.html

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12265.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1097599

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:3306-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0

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