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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2021-3153-01 Important: Exiv2 Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey August 16, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A crucial security patch for compat-exiv2-026 resolves a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
An update for compat-exiv2-026 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

Exiv2 is a C++ library to access image metadata, supporting read and write access to the Exif, IPTC and XMP metadata, Exif MakerNote support, extract and delete methods for Exif thumbnails, classes to access Ifd, and support for various image formats.
Security Fix(es):
* exiv2: Heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in jp2image.cpp (CVE-2021-31291)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux heap overflow security impact important update compat-exiv2-026

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-31291 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: compat-exiv2-026-0.26-4.el8_4.src.rpm
aarch64: compat-exiv2-026-0.26-4.el8_4.aarch64.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debuginfo-0.26-4.el8_4.aarch64.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debugsource-0.26-4.el8_4.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: compat-exiv2-026-0.26-4.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debuginfo-0.26-4.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debugsource-0.26-4.el8_4.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: compat-exiv2-026-0.26-4.el8_4.s390x.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debuginfo-0.26-4.el8_4.s390x.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debugsource-0.26-4.el8_4.s390x.rpm
x86_64: compat-exiv2-026-0.26-4.el8_4.i686.rpm compat-exiv2-026-0.26-4.el8_4.x86_64.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debuginfo-0.26-4.el8_4.i686.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debuginfo-0.26-4.el8_4.x86_64.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debugsource-0.26-4.el8_4.i686.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debugsource-0.26-4.el8_4.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:3153-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3153
Issue date: 2021-08-16

Topic

An update for compat-exiv2-026 is now available for Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux heap overflow security impact important update compat-exiv2-026

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1990327 - CVE-2021-31291 exiv2: Heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in jp2image.cpp

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