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Ubuntu 18.10: USN-3852-1 Critical: Exiv2 Denial Of Service

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Calendar Grey January 10, 2019
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
Multiple Ubuntu versions received security patches addressing various Exiv2 vulnerabilities.
Several security issues were fixed in Exiv2.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in Exiv2.

Software Description:

- exiv2: EXIF/IPTC/XMP metadata manipulation tool

Details:

It was discovered that Exiv2 incorrectly handled certain files.

An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.

CVE-2017-9239 only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

(CVE-2017-11591, CVE-2017-11683, CVE-2017-14859, CVE-2017-14862,

CVE-2017-14864, CVE-2017-17669, CVE-2017-9239, CVE-2018-16336,

CVE-2018-1758)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service exiv2 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 18.10 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 18.10:
  exiv2                           0.25-4ubuntu0.1
  libexiv2-14                     0.25-4ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  exiv2                           0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.2
  libexiv2-14                     0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.2

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  exiv2                           0.25-2.1ubuntu16.04.3
  libexiv2-14                     0.25-2.1ubuntu16.04.3

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
  exiv2                           0.23-1ubuntu2.2
  libexiv2-12                     0.23-1ubuntu2.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary
changes.

References

  https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3852-1

  CVE-2017-11591, CVE-2017-11683, CVE-2017-14859, CVE-2017-14862,

  CVE-2017-14864, CVE-2017-17669, CVE-2017-9239, CVE-2018-16336,

  CVE-2018-17581

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January 10, 2019

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service exiv2 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 18.10 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Package Information

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/exiv2/0.25-4ubuntu0.1
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/exiv2/0.25-3.1ubuntu0.18.04.2
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/exiv2/0.25-2.1ubuntu16.04.3
  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/exiv2/0.23-1ubuntu2.2

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