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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 RHSA-2021-3232 Critical: exiv2 Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey August 26, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Crucial exiv2 vulnerability patch released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux classified as Significant. Discover the details of the update here.
An update for exiv2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support

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 buffer overflow important update 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 AppStream EUS (v. 8.1):
Source: exiv2-0.26-11.el8_1.src.rpm
ppc64le: exiv2-0.26-11.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm exiv2-debuginfo-0.26-11.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm exiv2-debugsource-0.26-11.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm exiv2-libs-0.26-11.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm exiv2-libs-debuginfo-0.26-11.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: exiv2-0.26-11.el8_1.x86_64.rpm exiv2-debuginfo-0.26-11.el8_1.i686.rpm exiv2-debuginfo-0.26-11.el8_1.x86_64.rpm exiv2-debugsource-0.26-11.el8_1.i686.rpm exiv2-debugsource-0.26-11.el8_1.x86_64.rpm exiv2-libs-0.26-11.el8_1.i686.rpm exiv2-libs-0.26-11.el8_1.x86_64.rpm exiv2-libs-debuginfo-0.26-11.el8_1.i686.rpm exiv2-libs-debuginfo-0.26-11.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 8.1):
aarch64: exiv2-0.26-11.el8_1.aarch64.rpm exiv2-debuginfo-0.26-11.el8_1.aarch64.rpm exiv2-debugsource-0.26-11.el8_1.aarch64.rpm exiv2-devel-0.26-11.el8_1.aarch64.rpm exiv2-libs-0.26-11.el8_1.aarch64.rpm exiv2-libs-debuginfo-0.26-11.el8_1.aarch64.rpm
noarch: exiv2-doc-0.26-11.el8_1.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: exiv2-debuginfo-0.26-11.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm exiv2-debugsource-0.26-11.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm exiv2-devel-0.26-11.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm exiv2-libs-debuginfo-0.26-11.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: exiv2-0.26-11.el8_1.s390x.rpm exiv2-debuginfo-0.26-11.el8_1.s390x.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:3232-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3232
Issue date: 2021-08-19

Topic

An update for exiv2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1Extended Update Support.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 buffer overflow important update exiv2

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v. 8.1) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.1) - ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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