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Medium ALAS2-2025-3086 2 CVEs

Moderate: exiv2 security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Dec 8, 2025 · Updated Dec 8, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-55304: Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command-line utility to read, write, delete and modify Exif, IPTC, XMP and ICC image metadata. A denial-of-service was found in Exiv2 version 0.28.5: a quadratic algorithm in the ICC profile parsing code in jpegBase::readMetadata() can cause Exiv2 to run for a long time. The denial-of-service is triggered when Exiv2 is used to read the metadata of a crafted jpg image file. The bug is fixed in version 0.28.6. CVE-2025-54080: Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command-line utility to read, write, delete and modify Exif, IPTC, XMP and ICC image metadata. An out-of-bounds read was found in Exiv2 versions 0.28.5 and earlier. The out-of-bounds read is triggered when Exiv2 is used to write metadata into a crafted image file. An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to cause a denial of service by crashing Exiv2, if they can trick the victim into running Exiv2 on a crafted image file. Note that this bug is only triggered when writing the metadata, which is a less frequently used Exiv2 operation than reading the metadata. The bug is fixed in version 0.28.6.

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 exiv2 0:0.27.0-4.amzn2.0.6
Amazon Linux · 2 exiv2-debuginfo 0:0.27.0-4.amzn2.0.6
Amazon Linux · 2 exiv2-devel 0:0.27.0-4.amzn2.0.6
Amazon Linux · 2 exiv2-doc 0:0.27.0-4.amzn2.0.6
Amazon Linux · 2 exiv2-libs 0:0.27.0-4.amzn2.0.6

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Low 1.8

    Exiv2 Segmentation Faults in Exiv2::EpsImage::writeMetadata() via crafted EPS file

    Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command-line utility to read, write, delete and modify Exif, IPTC, XMP and ICC image metadata. An out-of-bounds read was found in Exiv2 versions 0.28.5 and earlier. The out-of-bounds read is triggered when Exiv2 is used to write m…

  • Low 1.8

    Exiv2 has quadratic performance in ICC profile parsing in JpegBase::readMetadata

    Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command-line utility to read, write, delete and modify Exif, IPTC, XMP and ICC image metadata. A denial-of-service was found in Exiv2 version 0.28.5: a quadratic algorithm in the ICC profile parsing code in jpegBase::readMetadata(…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-54080.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-55304.html