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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1691-1 exiv2 -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

26 Feb 2019

Affected Packages:

exiv2

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-17581, CVE-2018-19107, CVE-2018-19108, CVE-2018-19535, CVE-2018-20097.

More information:

Several issues have been found in exiv2, a EXIF/IPTC/XMP metadata manipulation tool.

• CVE-2018-17581

  A stack overflow due to a recursive function call causing excessive stack consumption which leads to denial of service.

• CVE-2018-19107

  A heap based buffer over-read caused by an integer overflow could result in a denial of service via a crafted file.

• CVE-2018-19108

  There seems to be an infinite loop inside a function that can be activated by a crafted image.

• CVE-2018-19535

  A heap based buffer over-read caused could result in a denial of service via a crafted file.

• CVE-2018-20097

  A crafted image could result in a denial of service.

For Debian 8 "Jessie", these problems have been fixed in version 0.24-4.1+deb8u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your exiv2 packages.

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