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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2021:4319-01 Moderate: compat-exiv2-026 DoS

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Calendar Grey November 9, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A significant Red Hat announcement addressing the compat-exiv2-026 patch's moderate vulnerabilities and resolutions.
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: Integer overflow in CrwMap:encode0x1810 leading to heap-based buffer overflow and DoS (CVE-2021-31292)
* exiv2: Out-of-bounds read in Exiv2::Jp2Image::printStructure (CVE-2021-37618)
* exiv2: Out-of-bounds read in Exiv2::Jp2Image::encodeJp2Header (CVE-2021-37619)
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 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat buffer overflow DoS out-of-bounds image metadata

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-31292 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-37618 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-37619 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.5_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: compat-exiv2-026-0.26-6.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: compat-exiv2-026-0.26-6.el8.aarch64.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debuginfo-0.26-6.el8.aarch64.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debugsource-0.26-6.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: compat-exiv2-026-0.26-6.el8.ppc64le.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debuginfo-0.26-6.el8.ppc64le.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debugsource-0.26-6.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: compat-exiv2-026-0.26-6.el8.s390x.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debuginfo-0.26-6.el8.s390x.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debugsource-0.26-6.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: compat-exiv2-026-0.26-6.el8.i686.rpm compat-exiv2-026-0.26-6.el8.x86_64.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debuginfo-0.26-6.el8.i686.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debuginfo-0.26-6.el8.x86_64.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debugsource-0.26-6.el8.i686.rpm compat-exiv2-026-debugsource-0.26-6.el8.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:4319-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4319
Issue date: 2021-11-09

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 Moderate. 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat buffer overflow DoS out-of-bounds image metadata

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1990330 - CVE-2021-31292 exiv2: Integer overflow in CrwMap:encode0x1810 leading to heap-based buffer overflow and DoS

1992165 - CVE-2021-37618 exiv2: Out-of-bounds read in Exiv2::Jp2Image::printStructure

1992174 - CVE-2021-37619 exiv2: Out-of-bounds read in Exiv2::Jp2Image::encodeJp2Header

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