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openSUSE Exiv2 Moderate DoS Buffer Overflow Update 2026-2584-1

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Calendar Grey June 23, 2026
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
An important update for openSUSE addresses multiple vulnerabilities in exiv2. Immediate installation recommended.
An update that solves four vulnerabilities can now be installed.

Description

This update for exiv2 fixes the following issues

* CVE-2021-34334: DoS due to integer overflow in loop counter (bsc#1189338).

* CVE-2026-25884: out-of-bounds read in `CrwMap: decode0x0805` (bsc#1259083).

* CVE-2026-27596: integer overflow in `LoaderNative: getData()` leads to out-

of-bounds read (bsc#1259084).

* CVE-2026-27631: crash due to uncaught exception when trying to create `std:

vector` larger than `max_size()` (bsc#1259085).

Changes for exiv2:

* Minor bugs and fixes

* Other improvements

* exivsimple has array index errors when stripping quotes form TIFF

parser,Binary array elements should be decoded using the Add option -K Key

(--key Key) to specify one or more keys to "exiv2 -eX" followed by "exiv2

-iX" produces invalid XMP

* This release introduces support for Postscript (EPS) images. XMP metadata

can be read and written from/to EPS images and previews are accessible.

Further it includes a new build environment for MSVC 64 bit

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow DoS OpenSUSE exiv2

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE 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 15.4

zypper in -t patch SUSE-2026-2584=1

* Desktop Applications Module 15-SP7

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Desktop-Applications-15-SP7-2026-2584=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64 i586 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* libexiv2-xmp-static-0.27.5-150400.15.7.1

* exiv2-debugsource-0.27.5-150400.15.7.1

* exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.5-150400.15.7.1

* libexiv2-27-debuginfo-0.27.5-150400.15.7.1

* libexiv2-27-0.27.5-150400.15.7.1

* exiv2-0.27.5-150400.15.7.1

* libexiv2-devel-0.27.5-150400.15.7.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (noarch)

* exiv2-lang-0.27.5-150400.15.7.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64)

* libexiv2-27-32bit-0.27.5-150400.15.7.1

* libexiv2-27-32bit-debuginfo-0.27.5-150400.15.7.1

* openSUSE Leap 15.4 (aarch64_ilp32)

* libexiv2-27-64bit-debuginfo-0.27.5-150400.15.7.1

* libexiv2-27-64bit-0.27.5-150400.15.7.1

* Desktop Applications Module 15-SP7 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* libexiv2-xmp-static-0.27.5-150400.15.7.1

* exiv2-debugsource-0.27.5-150400.15.7.1

* exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.5-150400.15.7.1

* libexiv2-27-debuginfo-0.27.5-150400.15.7.1

* libexiv2-27-0.27.5-150400.15.7.1

* libexiv2-devel-0.27.5-150400.15.7.1

References

* bsc#1189338

* bsc#1259083

* bsc#1259084

* bsc#1259085

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-34334.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-25884.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-27596.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-27631.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1189338

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259083

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259084

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1259085

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2026:2584-1
Release Date: 2026-06-23T13:27:50Z
Affected Products: * Desktop Applications Module 15-SP7 * openSUSE Leap 15.4 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 * SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate buffer overflow DoS OpenSUSE exiv2

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