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RHEL 8 RHSA-2021-1758-01 Low: exiv2 Out-of-Bounds Read Security Fix

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Calendar Grey May 18, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat revealed a minor security update for exiv2, encompassing important bug corrections and performance improvements. Explore the specifics.
An update for exiv2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The exiv2 packages provide a command line utility which can display and manipulate image metadata such as EXIF, LPTC, and JPEG comments.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: exiv2 (0.27.3). (BZ#1880984)
Security Fix(es):
* exiv2: out-of-bounds read in CiffDirectory::readDirectory due to lack of size check (CVE-2019-17402)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix low severity out-of-bounds image metadata exiv2 update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-17402 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.4_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: exiv2-0.27.3-2.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: exiv2-0.27.3-2.el8.aarch64.rpm exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.3-2.el8.aarch64.rpm exiv2-debugsource-0.27.3-2.el8.aarch64.rpm exiv2-libs-0.27.3-2.el8.aarch64.rpm exiv2-libs-debuginfo-0.27.3-2.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: exiv2-0.27.3-2.el8.ppc64le.rpm exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.3-2.el8.ppc64le.rpm exiv2-debugsource-0.27.3-2.el8.ppc64le.rpm exiv2-libs-0.27.3-2.el8.ppc64le.rpm exiv2-libs-debuginfo-0.27.3-2.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: exiv2-0.27.3-2.el8.s390x.rpm exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.3-2.el8.s390x.rpm exiv2-debugsource-0.27.3-2.el8.s390x.rpm exiv2-libs-0.27.3-2.el8.s390x.rpm exiv2-libs-debuginfo-0.27.3-2.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: exiv2-0.27.3-2.el8.x86_64.rpm exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.3-2.el8.i686.rpm exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.3-2.el8.x86_64.rpm exiv2-debugsource-0.27.3-2.el8.i686.rpm exiv2-debugsource-0.27.3-2.el8.x86_64.rpm exiv2-libs-0.27.3-2.el8.i686.rpm exiv2-libs-0.27.3-2.el8.x86_64.rpm exiv2-libs-debuginfo-0.27.3-2.el8.i686.rpm exiv2-libs-debuginfo-0.27.3-2.el8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8):
aarch64: exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.3-2.el8.aarch64.rpm exiv2-debugsource-0.27.3-2.el8.aarch64.rpm exiv2-devel-0.27.3-2.el8.aarch64.rpm exiv2-libs-debuginfo-0.27.3-2.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:1758-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1758
Issue date: 2021-05-18

Topic

An update for exiv2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix low severity out-of-bounds image metadata exiv2 update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1773683 - CVE-2019-17402 exiv2: out-of-bounds read in CiffDirectory::readDirectory due to lack of size check

1880984 - Rebase exiv2 to 0.27.3

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