Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4238-1 exiv2 -- security update

Date Reported:

03 Jul 2018

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2018-10958, CVE-2018-10998, CVE-2018-10999, CVE-2018-11531, CVE-2018-12264, CVE-2018-12265.

More information:

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Exiv2, a C++ library and a command line utility to manage image metadata which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed file is parsed.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 0.25-3.1+deb9u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your exiv2 packages.

For the detailed security status of exiv2 please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/exiv2