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Medium ALAS2023-2025-1049 1 CVE

Moderate: exiv2 security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Jun 25, 2025 · Updated Jul 10, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-26623: Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command-line utility to read, write, delete and modify Exif, IPTC, XMP and ICC image metadata. A heap buffer overflow was found in Exiv2 versions v0.28.0 to v0.28.4. Versions prior to v0.28.0, such as v0.27.7, are **not** affected. Exiv2 is a command-line utility and C++ library for reading, writing, deleting, and modifying the metadata of image files. The heap overflow is triggered when Exiv2 is used to write metadata into a crafted image file. An attacker could potentially exploit the vulnerability to gain code execution, 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. For example, to trigger the bug in the Exiv2 command-line application, you need to add an extra command-line argument such as `fixiso`. The bug is fixed in version v0.28.5. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Fixed packages 7

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 exiv2 0:0.28.5-128.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 exiv2-debuginfo 0:0.28.5-128.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 exiv2-debugsource 0:0.28.5-128.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 exiv2-devel 0:0.28.5-128.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 exiv2-doc 0:0.28.5-128.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 exiv2-libs 0:0.28.5-128.amzn2023
Amazon Linux · 2023 exiv2-libs-debuginfo 0:0.28.5-128.amzn2023

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Medium 5.3

    Use After Free in Exiv2

    Exiv2 is a C++ library and a command-line utility to read, write, delete and modify Exif, IPTC, XMP and ICC image metadata. A heap buffer overflow was found in Exiv2 versions v0.28.0 to v0.28.4. Versions prior to v0.28.0, such as v0.27.7, are **not** affected…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2025-26623.html