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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2022-1842 Moderate Exiv2 DoS Risk

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Calendar Grey May 10, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has released a significant security notice regarding exiv2, addressing a resolution for stack overflow vulnerabilities that can trigger denial-of-service conditions.
An update for exiv2 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.
The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: exiv2 (0.27.5). (BZ#2018422)
Security Fix(es):
* exiv2: stack exhaustion issue in the printIFDStructure function may lead to DoS (CVE-2020-18898)
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 8.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat bug fix moderate severity DoS fix exiv2

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-18898 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.6_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: exiv2-0.27.5-2.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: exiv2-0.27.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm exiv2-debugsource-0.27.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm exiv2-libs-0.27.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm exiv2-libs-debuginfo-0.27.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: exiv2-0.27.5-2.el8.ppc64le.rpm exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.5-2.el8.ppc64le.rpm exiv2-debugsource-0.27.5-2.el8.ppc64le.rpm exiv2-libs-0.27.5-2.el8.ppc64le.rpm exiv2-libs-debuginfo-0.27.5-2.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: exiv2-0.27.5-2.el8.s390x.rpm exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.5-2.el8.s390x.rpm exiv2-debugsource-0.27.5-2.el8.s390x.rpm exiv2-libs-0.27.5-2.el8.s390x.rpm exiv2-libs-debuginfo-0.27.5-2.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: exiv2-0.27.5-2.el8.x86_64.rpm exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.5-2.el8.i686.rpm exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.5-2.el8.x86_64.rpm exiv2-debugsource-0.27.5-2.el8.i686.rpm exiv2-debugsource-0.27.5-2.el8.x86_64.rpm exiv2-libs-0.27.5-2.el8.i686.rpm exiv2-libs-0.27.5-2.el8.x86_64.rpm exiv2-libs-debuginfo-0.27.5-2.el8.i686.rpm exiv2-libs-debuginfo-0.27.5-2.el8.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8):
aarch64: exiv2-debuginfo-0.27.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm exiv2-debugsource-0.27.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm exiv2-devel-0.27.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm exiv2-libs-debuginfo-0.27.5-2.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch:

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:1842-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1842
Issue date: 2022-05-10

Topic

An update for exiv2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 security issue Red Hat bug fix moderate severity DoS fix exiv2

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

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

Bugs Fixed

2002678 - CVE-2020-18898 exiv2: stack exhaustion issue in the printIFDStructure function may lead to DoS

2018422 - Rebase Exiv2 to 0.27.5

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