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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2025-26623 EUVD-2025-4463GHSA-38h4-fx85-qcx7PYSEC-2026-1353

Use After Free in Exiv2

Published Feb 18, 2025 · Updated Feb 19, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Exiv2 exiv2 >= 0.28.0, < 0.28.5 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 exiv2 0.28.4+dfsg-2 —
Debian 13 exiv2 0.28.4+dfsg-2 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 10 exiv2 +3 0.28.3-3.el10_0.2 RHSA-2025:7457

AlmaLinux

Errata ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux 10 exiv2 +3 0.28.3-3.el10_0.2 ALSA-2025:7457

Rocky Linux

Errata ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Rocky Linux 10 exiv2 0.28.3-3.el10_0.2 RLSA-2025:7457
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 exiv2 0.28.8-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:20923-1
SLES 16.0 exiv2 0.28.8-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:20923-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed exiv2 0.28.8-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10298-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 exiv2 0.28.8-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:20410-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 exiv2 0.28.5-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 exiv2 0.28.5-r0 —
Alpine v3.22 exiv2 0.28.5-r0 —

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 exiv2 +3 0.28.5-128.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1049

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 exiv2 No fix yet —
Azure Linux 2 (CBL-Mariner) exiv2 No fix yet —

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 10 exiv2 +3 0.28.3-3.el10_0.2 ELSA-2025-7457

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI exiv2 >= 0.28.0, < 0.28.5 0.28.5 GHSA-38h4-fx85-qcx7

Advisories 9

References