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Red Hat: RHSA-2021:3158-01 Important: Exiv2 Heap Overflow

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Calendar Grey August 16, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Canonical reveals a significant patch for libjpeg-turbo tackling stack-buffer overflow vulnerabilities. Full report below.
An update for exiv2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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 security update Red Hat buffer overflow important heap overflow exiv2

References

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

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: exiv2-0.27.0-4.el7_8.src.rpm
x86_64: exiv2-0.27.0-4.el7_8.x86_64.rpm exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.0-4.el7_8.i686.rpm exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.0-4.el7_8.x86_64.rpm exiv2-libs-0.27.0-4.el7_8.i686.rpm exiv2-libs-0.27.0-4.el7_8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
noarch: exiv2-doc-0.27.0-4.el7_8.noarch.rpm
x86_64: exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.0-4.el7_8.i686.rpm exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.0-4.el7_8.x86_64.rpm exiv2-devel-0.27.0-4.el7_8.i686.rpm exiv2-devel-0.27.0-4.el7_8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: exiv2-0.27.0-4.el7_8.src.rpm
x86_64: exiv2-0.27.0-4.el7_8.x86_64.rpm exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.0-4.el7_8.i686.rpm exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.0-4.el7_8.x86_64.rpm exiv2-libs-0.27.0-4.el7_8.i686.rpm exiv2-libs-0.27.0-4.el7_8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
noarch: exiv2-doc-0.27.0-4.el7_8.noarch.rpm
x86_64: exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.0-4.el7_8.i686.rpm exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.0-4.el7_8.x86_64.rpm exiv2-devel-0.27.0-4.el7_8.i686.rpm exiv2-devel-0.27.0-4.el7_8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: exiv2-0.27.0-4.el7_8.src.rpm
ppc64: exiv2-0.27.0-4.el7_8.ppc64.rpm exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.0-4.el7_8.ppc.rpm exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.0-4.el7_8.ppc64.rpm exiv2-libs-0.27.0-4.el7_8.ppc.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:3158-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3158
Issue date: 2021-08-16

Topic

An update for exiv2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.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 security update Red Hat buffer overflow important heap overflow exiv2

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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