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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHSA-2021:3233 Important Heap Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey August 26, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Canonical has released a crucial patch for libjpeg-turbo addressing severe memory corruption vulnerabilities.
An update for compat-exiv2-026 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 buffer overflow software update important Red Hat Enterprise security impact compat-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: compat-exiv2-026-0.26-3.el7_9.src.rpm
x86_64: compat-exiv2-026-0.26-3.el7_9.i686.rpm compat-exiv2-026-0.26-3.el7_9.x86_64.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debuginfo-0.26-3.el7_9.i686.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debuginfo-0.26-3.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: compat-exiv2-026-0.26-3.el7_9.src.rpm
x86_64: compat-exiv2-026-0.26-3.el7_9.i686.rpm compat-exiv2-026-0.26-3.el7_9.x86_64.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debuginfo-0.26-3.el7_9.i686.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debuginfo-0.26-3.el7_9.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: compat-exiv2-026-0.26-3.el7_9.src.rpm
ppc64: compat-exiv2-026-0.26-3.el7_9.ppc.rpm compat-exiv2-026-0.26-3.el7_9.ppc64.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debuginfo-0.26-3.el7_9.ppc.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debuginfo-0.26-3.el7_9.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: compat-exiv2-026-0.26-3.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debuginfo-0.26-3.el7_9.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: compat-exiv2-026-0.26-3.el7_9.s390.rpm compat-exiv2-026-0.26-3.el7_9.s390x.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debuginfo-0.26-3.el7_9.s390.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debuginfo-0.26-3.el7_9.s390x.rpm
x86_64: compat-exiv2-026-0.26-3.el7_9.i686.rpm compat-exiv2-026-0.26-3.el7_9.x86_64.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debuginfo-0.26-3.el7_9.i686.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Severity
important
Lowest
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Critical

Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:3233-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3233
Issue date: 2021-08-19

Topic

An update for compat-exiv2-026 is now available for Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 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 buffer overflow software update important Red Hat Enterprise security impact compat-exiv2

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

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

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

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

Bugs Fixed

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

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