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Medium ALAS2-2023-2284 1 CVE

Moderate: exiv2 security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Sep 27, 2023 · Updated Oct 5, 2023

Ecosystem: Amazon Linux

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-18831: Buffer Overflow vulnerability in tEXtToDataBuf function in pngimage.cpp in Exiv2 0.27.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and other unspecified impacts via use of crafted file.

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 exiv2 0:0.27.0-4.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 exiv2-debuginfo 0:0.27.0-4.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 exiv2-devel 0:0.27.0-4.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 exiv2-doc 0:0.27.0-4.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 exiv2-libs 0:0.27.0-4.amzn2.0.3

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.8
    CVE-2020-18831

    Buffer Overflow vulnerability in tEXtToDataBuf function in pngimage.cpp in Exiv2 0.27.1 allows remote attackers to caus…

    exiv2 exiv2 Debian PyPI

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2020-18831.html