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Low ALAS2-2020-1512 1 CVE

Low: exiv2 security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Oct 22, 2020 · Updated Oct 22, 2020

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-17402: An out of bounds read vulnerability was discovered in the way exiv2 parses Canon raw format (CRW) images. An application that uses exiv2 library to parse untrusted images may be vulnerable to this flaw, which could be used by an attacker to extract data from the application's memory or make it crash. The biggest threat with this vulnerability is availability of the system. 1773683: CVE-2019-17402 exiv2: out-of-bounds read in CiffDirectory::readDirectory due to lack of size check

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 exiv2 0:0.27.0-3.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 exiv2-debuginfo 0:0.27.0-3.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 exiv2-devel 0:0.27.0-3.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 exiv2-doc 0:0.27.0-3.amzn2.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2 exiv2-libs 0:0.27.0-3.amzn2.0.2

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-17402.html